How To Install tbb-examples on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install tbb-examples on Debian 9. tbb-examples is parallelism library for C++ - example files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tbb-examples on Debian 9.

What is tbb-examples

tbb-examples is:

TBB is a library that helps you leverage multi-core processor performance without having to be a threading expert. It represents a higher-level, task-based parallelism that abstracts platform details and threading mechanism for performance and scalability.

(Note: if you are a user of the i386 architecture, i.e., 32-bit Intel or compatible hardware, this package only supports Pentium4-compatible and higher processors.)

This package includes the TBB example files.

There are three methods to install tbb-examples on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tbb-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 tbb-examples using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tbb-examples

Install tbb-examples Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tbb-examples

Install tbb-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install tbb-examples using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tbb-examples

How To Uninstall tbb-examples on Debian 9

To uninstall only the tbb-examples package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tbb-examples

Uninstall tbb-examples And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tbb-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tbb-examples

Remove tbb-examples Configurations and Data

To remove tbb-examples configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tbb-examples

Remove tbb-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tbb-examples

Dependencies

tbb-examples have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tbb-examples package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.