How To Install clblast-utils on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clblast-utils
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is clblast-utils
clblast-utils 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 utilities for tuning the implementation for specific hardware.
There are three methods to install clblast-utils
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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 22.04
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 Ubuntu 22.04, 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 Ubuntu 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clblast-utils
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.