How To Install libopenblas64-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenblas64-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libopenblas64-dev
libopenblas64-dev 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).
This package includes the static libraries and symbolic links needed for program development.
This metapackage provides a 64-bit indexing version.
Package: libopenblas64-dev 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 (= 0.3.8+ds-1), libopenblas64-pthread-dev | libopenblas64-openmp-dev | libopenblas64-serial-dev Filename: pool/universe/o/openblas/libopenblas64-dev_0.3.8+ds-1_amd64.deb Size: 4804 MD5sum: c1f71d8676650a2d2f93f9c213856ed5 SHA1: a7d819603c831bdadae2f76ce0663ae089a0738d SHA256: a3c37e58b74a25b37320f370e2d3739a8346d57bfc62f489bd5bb9dbba8018c2 Homepage: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS Description-en: Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library (dev, 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).
This package includes the static libraries and symbolic links needed for program development.
This metapackage provides a 64-bit indexing version.
There are three methods to install libopenblas64-dev 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-dev 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-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libopenblas64-dev
Install libopenblas64-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libopenblas64-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libopenblas64-dev
Install libopenblas64-dev 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-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libopenblas64-dev
How To Uninstall libopenblas64-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libopenblas64-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libopenblas64-dev
Uninstall libopenblas64-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libopenblas64-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopenblas64-dev
Remove libopenblas64-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libopenblas64-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libopenblas64-dev
Remove libopenblas64-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libopenblas64-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopenblas64-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenblas64-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
