How To Install libstarpu-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libstarpu-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libstarpu-dev is Task scheduler for heterogeneous multicore machines - dev

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarpu-dev on Debian 10.

What is libstarpu-dev

libstarpu-dev is:

StarPU is a runtime system that offers support for heterogeneous multicore machines. While many efforts are devoted to design efficient computation kernels for those architectures (e.g. to implement BLAS kernels on GPUs or on Cell’s SPUs), StarPU not only takes care of offloading such kernels (and implementing data coherency across the machine), but it also makes sure the kernels are executed as efficiently as possible.

This package contains development headers and libraries.

There are three methods to install libstarpu-dev on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libstarpu-dev

Install libstarpu-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libstarpu-dev

Install libstarpu-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 libstarpu-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libstarpu-dev

How To Uninstall libstarpu-dev on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove libstarpu-dev

Uninstall libstarpu-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libstarpu-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libstarpu-dev

Remove libstarpu-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libstarpu-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libstarpu-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

libstarpu-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarpu-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.