How To Install libopenblas64-0-serial on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenblas64-0-serial on Ubuntu 20.04. libopenblas64-0-serial is Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library (shared lib, 64bit, serial) Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library (shared lib, 64bit, serial)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenblas64-0-serial on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is libopenblas64-0-serial

libopenblas64-0-serial is:

OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.

Unlike Atlas, OpenBLAS provides a multiple architecture library.

All kernel will be included in the library and dynamically switched to the best architecture at run time (only on amd64, arm64, i386 and ppc64el).

For more information on how to rebuild locally OpenBLAS, see the section: “Building Optimized OpenBLAS Packages on your ARCH” in README.Debian

Configuration: USE_THREAD=0 USE_OPENMP=0 INTERFACE64=1

Package: libopenblas64-0-serial Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.3.8+ds-1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: universe/libs Source: openblas Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Science Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 89863 Provides: libblas64.so.3, liblapack64.so.3 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libgfortran5 (>= 8) Filename: pool/universe/o/openblas/libopenblas64-0-serial_0.3.8+ds-1_amd64.deb Size: 8361532 MD5sum: b8195a8a238796b0946523bad769df85 SHA1: 0905c7462eb4ae48796882cab4b1048d884a1f1e SHA256: 1095eba249f6a9d158075a044b88fc32cb1dd0cb73d5ed30dcecebc18bd2cf7c Homepage: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS Description-en: Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library (shared lib, 64bit, serial) OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.

Unlike Atlas, OpenBLAS provides a multiple architecture library.

All kernel will be included in the library and dynamically switched to the best architecture at run time (only on amd64, arm64, i386 and ppc64el).

For more information on how to rebuild locally OpenBLAS, see the section: “Building Optimized OpenBLAS Packages on your ARCH” in README.Debian

Configuration: USE_THREAD=0 USE_OPENMP=0 INTERFACE64=1

There are three methods to install libopenblas64-0-serial on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libopenblas64-0-serial Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libopenblas64-0-serial using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libopenblas64-0-serial

Install libopenblas64-0-serial Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libopenblas64-0-serial using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libopenblas64-0-serial

Install libopenblas64-0-serial Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libopenblas64-0-serial using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libopenblas64-0-serial

How To Uninstall libopenblas64-0-serial on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the libopenblas64-0-serial package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libopenblas64-0-serial

Uninstall libopenblas64-0-serial And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libopenblas64-0-serial and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopenblas64-0-serial

Remove libopenblas64-0-serial Configurations and Data

To remove libopenblas64-0-serial configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libopenblas64-0-serial

Remove libopenblas64-0-serial configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libopenblas64-0-serial configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopenblas64-0-serial

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenblas64-0-serial package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.