How To Install libcudart9.1 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcudart9.1 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libcudart9.1
libcudart9.1 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 libcudart9.1 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 libcudart9.1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcudart9.1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcudart9.1
Install libcudart9.1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcudart9.1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcudart9.1
Install libcudart9.1 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 libcudart9.1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcudart9.1
How To Uninstall libcudart9.1 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libcudart9.1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcudart9.1
Uninstall libcudart9.1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcudart9.1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcudart9.1
Remove libcudart9.1 Configurations and Data
To remove libcudart9.1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcudart9.1
Remove libcudart9.1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcudart9.1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcudart9.1
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcudart9.1 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
