How To Install clblast-tests on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clblast-tests on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is clblast-tests
clblast-tests is:
CLBlast is a modern, lightweight, performant and tunable OpenCL BLAS library written in C++11. It is designed to leverage the full performance potential of a wide variety of OpenCL devices from different vendors, including desktop and laptop GPUs, embedded GPUs, and other accelerators. CLBlast implements BLAS routines: basic linear algebra subprograms operating on vectors and matrices.
This package provides tests and benchmarks against other BLAS implementations.
There are three methods to install clblast-tests 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 clblast-tests Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install clblast-tests using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clblast-tests
Install clblast-tests Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install clblast-tests using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clblast-tests
Install clblast-tests 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 clblast-tests using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clblast-tests
How To Uninstall clblast-tests on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the clblast-tests package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clblast-tests
Uninstall clblast-tests And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clblast-tests and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clblast-tests
Remove clblast-tests Configurations and Data
To remove clblast-tests configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clblast-tests
Remove clblast-tests configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clblast-tests configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clblast-tests
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clblast-tests package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
