How To Install libblas-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libblas-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libblas-dev
libblas-dev is:
This package is a binary incompatible upgrade to the blas-dev package. Several minor changes to the C interface have been incorporated.
BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines) is a set of efficient routines for most of the basic vector and matrix operations. They are widely used as the basis for other high quality linear algebra software, for example lapack and linpack. This implementation is the Fortran 77 reference implementation found at netlib.
This package contains a static version of the library.
There are three methods to install libblas-dev
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 libblas-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libblas-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libblas-dev
Install libblas-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libblas-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libblas-dev
Install libblas-dev 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 libblas-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libblas-dev
How To Uninstall libblas-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libblas-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libblas-dev
Uninstall libblas-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libblas-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libblas-dev
Remove libblas-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libblas-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libblas-dev
Remove libblas-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libblas-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libblas-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libblas-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.