How To Install librsb-dev on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install librsb-dev on Debian 9. librsb-dev is recursive sparse blocks matrix computations library (development)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librsb-dev on Debian 9.

What is librsb-dev

librsb-dev is:

This is a library for sparse matrix computations featuring the Recursive Sparse Blocks (RSB) matrix format. This format allows cache efficient and multi-threaded (that is, shared memory parallel) operations on large sparse matrices. It provides the most common operations necessary to iterative solvers, like matrix-vector multiplication, triangular solution, rows/columns scaling, diagonal extraction / setting, blocks extraction, norm computation, formats conversion. The RSB format is especially well suited for symmetric and transposed multiplication variants.

This package contains the static libraries for development with librsb, including examples and the rsbench utility.

There are three methods to install librsb-dev on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install librsb-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 librsb-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install librsb-dev

Install librsb-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install librsb-dev

Install librsb-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install librsb-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install librsb-dev

How To Uninstall librsb-dev on Debian 9

To uninstall only the librsb-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove librsb-dev

Uninstall librsb-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall librsb-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove librsb-dev

Remove librsb-dev Configurations and Data

To remove librsb-dev configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge librsb-dev

Remove librsb-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librsb-dev

Dependencies

librsb-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install librsb-dev package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.