How To Install libcublas11 on Kali Linux
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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libcublas11 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcublas11Install libcublas11 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libcublas11 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcublas11Install 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libcublas11 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcublas11How To Uninstall libcublas11 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libcublas11 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcublas11Uninstall 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 libcublas11Remove libcublas11 Configurations and Data
To remove libcublas11 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcublas11Remove 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 libcublas11Dependencies
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.
