How To Install libclc-amdgcn on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libclc-amdgcn
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libclc-amdgcn
libclc-amdgcn is:
libclc is an open implementation of the OpenCL C programming language, as specified by the OpenCL 1.1 Specification.
This package contains support for the amdgcn (AMD GPU) platform. Supported GPU families: Southern Islands and newer.
Package: libclc-amdgcn Architecture: all Version: 0.2.0+git20190827-4 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: extra Section: universe/libs Source: libclc Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian OpenCL team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 24514 Depends: libclc-dev (= 0.2.0+git20190827-4), libclang-common-9-dev Filename: pool/universe/libc/libclc/libclc-amdgcn_0.2.0+git20190827-4_all.deb Size: 2174980 MD5sum: ef72130b204e4e0acf5041128d3b6678 SHA1: fb214c5461b725ed9bdf58bbcff98970e142c65d SHA256: cfc75dfb4086475bb8a4d625b77adc2088222f1a3d3ba50f07c9b3ffdb3a7a30 Homepage: https://libclc.llvm.org Description-en: OpenCL C language implementation - amdgcn support libclc is an open implementation of the OpenCL C programming language, as specified by the OpenCL 1.1 Specification.
This package contains support for the amdgcn (AMD GPU) platform. Supported GPU families: Southern Islands and newer.
There are three methods to install libclc-amdgcn
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 libclc-amdgcn Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libclc-amdgcn
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libclc-amdgcn
Install libclc-amdgcn Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libclc-amdgcn
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libclc-amdgcn
Install libclc-amdgcn 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 libclc-amdgcn
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libclc-amdgcn
How To Uninstall libclc-amdgcn on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libclc-amdgcn
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libclc-amdgcn
Uninstall libclc-amdgcn And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libclc-amdgcn
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libclc-amdgcn
Remove libclc-amdgcn Configurations and Data
To remove libclc-amdgcn
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libclc-amdgcn
Remove libclc-amdgcn configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libclc-amdgcn
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libclc-amdgcn
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libclc-amdgcn
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.