How To Install libopenblas64-0 on Ubuntu 20.04

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

Introduction

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

What is libopenblas64-0

libopenblas64-0 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

This metapackage provides a 64-bit indexing version.

Package: libopenblas64-0 Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.3.8+ds-1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: universe/metapackages 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: 37 Depends: libopenblas64-0-pthread | libopenblas64-0-openmp | libopenblas64-0-serial Filename: pool/universe/o/openblas/libopenblas64-0_0.3.8+ds-1_amd64.deb Size: 4816 MD5sum: 662b99611b5435212008216b055d5206 SHA1: dc4faa0d80413893a266a945aa1db9834008267d SHA256: 031f39dad8dda5c2255a6321cde462e901fb75836d2aaad68b6e8d1434cab881 Homepage: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS Description-en: Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library (shared lib, 64bit, meta) 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

This metapackage provides a 64-bit indexing version.

There are three methods to install libopenblas64-0 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libopenblas64-0

Install libopenblas64-0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libopenblas64-0

Install libopenblas64-0 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libopenblas64-0

How To Uninstall libopenblas64-0 on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove libopenblas64-0

Uninstall libopenblas64-0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libopenblas64-0 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

Remove libopenblas64-0 Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libopenblas64-0

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

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

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

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Summary

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