How To Install libblas64-3 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libblas64-3 on Kali Linux.

What is libblas64-3

libblas64-3 is:

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 shared version of the library. Compiled with Fortran option “-fdefault-integer-8”.

There are three methods to install libblas64-3 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 libblas64-3 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libblas64-3 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libblas64-3

Install libblas64-3 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libblas64-3 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libblas64-3

Install libblas64-3 Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux 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 libblas64-3 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libblas64-3

How To Uninstall libblas64-3 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libblas64-3 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libblas64-3

Uninstall libblas64-3 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libblas64-3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libblas64-3

Remove libblas64-3 Configurations and Data

To remove libblas64-3 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libblas64-3

Remove libblas64-3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libblas64-3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libblas64-3

Dependencies

libblas64-3 have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgfortran5

References

• libblas64-3 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libblas64-3 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.