How To Install tau-examples on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tau-examples on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tau-examples
tau-examples is:
TAU is a profiling toolkit specially made for parallel computing (multi-thread, multi-process, MPI, PVM).
A collection of examples that demonstrate how to use TAU to profile various sorts of applications.
There are three methods to install tau-examples 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 tau-examples Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tau-examples using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tau-examples
Install tau-examples Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tau-examples using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tau-examples
Install tau-examples 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 tau-examples using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tau-examples
How To Uninstall tau-examples on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tau-examples package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tau-examples
Uninstall tau-examples And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tau-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tau-examples
Remove tau-examples Configurations and Data
To remove tau-examples configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tau-examples
Remove tau-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tau-examples configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tau-examples
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tau-examples package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
