How To Install libcudart10.1 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcudart10.1 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libcudart10.1
libcudart10.1 is:
The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for massively parallel general purpose computation.
This package contains the CUDA Runtime API library for high-level CUDA programming, on top of the CUDA Driver API.
There are three methods to install libcudart10.1 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 libcudart10.1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcudart10.1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcudart10.1
Install libcudart10.1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcudart10.1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcudart10.1
Install libcudart10.1 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 libcudart10.1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcudart10.1
How To Uninstall libcudart10.1 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libcudart10.1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcudart10.1
Uninstall libcudart10.1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcudart10.1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcudart10.1
Remove libcudart10.1 Configurations and Data
To remove libcudart10.1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcudart10.1
Remove libcudart10.1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcudart10.1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcudart10.1
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcudart10.1 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.