How To Install libcublas11 on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcublas11 on Kali Linux. libcublas11 is NVIDIA cuBLAS Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcublas11 on Kali Linux.

What is libcublas11

libcublas11 is:

The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for massively parallel general purpose computation.

The cuBLAS library is an implementation of BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) on top of the NVIDIA CUDA runtime. It allows the user to access the computational resources of NVIDIA Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), but does not auto-parallelize across multiple GPUs.

This package contains the cuBLAS runtime library.

There are three methods to install libcublas11 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 libcublas11 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libcublas11 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libcublas11

Install libcublas11 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libcublas11 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libcublas11

Install libcublas11 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 libcublas11 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcublas11

How To Uninstall libcublas11 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libcublas11 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libcublas11

Uninstall libcublas11 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libcublas11 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcublas11

Remove libcublas11 Configurations and Data

To remove libcublas11 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libcublas11

Remove libcublas11 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libcublas11 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcublas11

Dependencies

libcublas11 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcublas11 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.