How To Install libcublas9.1 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcublas9.1 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libcublas9.1
libcublas9.1 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 libcublas9.1 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 libcublas9.1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcublas9.1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcublas9.1
Install libcublas9.1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcublas9.1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcublas9.1
Install libcublas9.1 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 libcublas9.1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcublas9.1
How To Uninstall libcublas9.1 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libcublas9.1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcublas9.1
Uninstall libcublas9.1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcublas9.1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcublas9.1
Remove libcublas9.1 Configurations and Data
To remove libcublas9.1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcublas9.1
Remove libcublas9.1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcublas9.1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcublas9.1
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcublas9.1 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
