How To Install lua-torch-nngraph on Debian 10

Learn how to install lua-torch-nngraph on Debian 10 with this tutorial. lua-torch-nngraph is Neural Network Graph Package for Torch Framework

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-torch-nngraph on Debian 10.

What is `lua-torch-nngraph`

lua-torch-nngraph is:

This package provides graphical computation for nn library in Torch. The aim of this library is to provide users of nn package with tools to easily create complicated architectures. Any given nn module is going to be bundled into a graph node. The __call__ operator of an instance of nn.Module is used to create architectures as if one is writing function calls.

There are three methods to install lua-torch-nngraph 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 lua-torch-nngraph Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install lua-torch-nngraph using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install lua-torch-nngraph

Install lua-torch-nngraph Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install lua-torch-nngraph using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install lua-torch-nngraph

Install lua-torch-nngraph 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 lua-torch-nngraph using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lua-torch-nngraph

How To Uninstall lua-torch-nngraph on Debian 10

To uninstall only the lua-torch-nngraph package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove lua-torch-nngraph

Uninstall lua-torch-nngraph And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-torch-nngraph

Remove lua-torch-nngraph Configurations and Data

To remove lua-torch-nngraph configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lua-torch-nngraph

Remove lua-torch-nngraph configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove lua-torch-nngraph configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-torch-nngraph

Dependencies

lua-torch-nngraph have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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