How To Install librsb-tools on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install librsb-tools
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is librsb-tools
librsb-tools 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 rsbench program for testing the functionality and performance of librsb.
There are three methods to install librsb-tools
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-tools 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-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install librsb-tools
Install librsb-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install librsb-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install librsb-tools
Install librsb-tools 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-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install librsb-tools
How To Uninstall librsb-tools on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the librsb-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove librsb-tools
Uninstall librsb-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall librsb-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove librsb-tools
Remove librsb-tools Configurations and Data
To remove librsb-tools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge librsb-tools
Remove librsb-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove librsb-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librsb-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install librsb-tools
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.