How To Install clinfo on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clinfo on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is clinfo
clinfo is:
OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a multivendor open standard for general-purpose parallel programming of heterogeneous systems that include CPUs, GPUs and other processors.
This package contains a tool that queries the capabilities of the available OpenCL drivers.
There are three methods to install clinfo on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install clinfo Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install clinfo using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clinfo
Install clinfo Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install clinfo using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clinfo
Install clinfo 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 clinfo using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clinfo
How To Uninstall clinfo on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the clinfo package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clinfo
Uninstall clinfo And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clinfo and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clinfo
Remove clinfo Configurations and Data
To remove clinfo configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clinfo
Remove clinfo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clinfo configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clinfo
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clinfo package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
