How To Install libclfft-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libclfft-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libclfft-dev
libclfft-dev is:
The clFFT library is an open source OpenCL library implementation of discrete Fast Fourier Transforms, which:
- Provides a fast and accurate platform for calculating discrete FFTs.
- Works on CPU or GPU backends.
- Supports in-place or out-of-place transforms.
- Supports 1D, 2D, and 3D transforms with a batch size that can be greater than 1.
- Supports planar (real and complex components in separate arrays) and interleaved (real and complex components as a pair contiguous in memory) formats.
- Supports dimension lengths that can be any mix of powers of 2, 3, and 5.
- Supports single and double precision floating point formats.
This package provides the development files.
There are three methods to install libclfft-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libclfft-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 libclfft-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libclfft-dev
Install libclfft-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libclfft-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libclfft-dev
Install libclfft-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 libclfft-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libclfft-dev
How To Uninstall libclfft-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libclfft-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libclfft-dev
Uninstall libclfft-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libclfft-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libclfft-dev
Remove libclfft-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libclfft-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libclfft-dev
Remove libclfft-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libclfft-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libclfft-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libclfft-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
