How To Install clblast-utils on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clblast-utils on Kali Linux.
What is clblast-utils
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 utilities for tuning the implementation for specific hardware.
There are three ways to install clblast-utils on Kali Linux . 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-utils 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-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clblast-utils
Install clblast-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install clblast-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clblast-utils
Install clblast-utils 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 Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install clblast-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clblast-utils
How To Uninstall clblast-utils on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the clblast-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clblast-utils
Uninstall clblast-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clblast-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clblast-utils
Remove clblast-utils Configurations and Data
To remove clblast-utils configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clblast-utils
Remove clblast-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clblast-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clblast-utils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clblast-utils using different package management tools like apt, apt-get and aptitude.