How To Install clblast-utils on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install clblast-utils on Ubuntu 22.04. clblast-utils is Utilities for CLBlast

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

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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.