How To Install librsb-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install librsb-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is librsb-doc
librsb-doc 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 documentation for librsb.
There are three methods to install librsb-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install librsb-doc 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-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install librsb-doc
Install librsb-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install librsb-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install librsb-doc
Install librsb-doc 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 librsb-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install librsb-doc
How To Uninstall librsb-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the librsb-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove librsb-doc
Uninstall librsb-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall librsb-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove librsb-doc
Remove librsb-doc Configurations and Data
To remove librsb-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge librsb-doc
Remove librsb-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove librsb-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librsb-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install librsb-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
