How To Install libcurand9.1 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcurand9.1 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libcurand9.1
libcurand9.1 is:
The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for massively parallel general purpose computation.
The cuRAND library provides facilities that focus on the simple and efficient generation of high-quality pseudorandom and quasirandom numbers. A pseudorandom sequence of numbers satisfies most of the statistical properties of a truly random sequence but is generated by a deterministic algorithm. A quasirandom sequence of n-dimensional points is generated by a deterministic algorithm designed to fill an n-dimensional space evenly.
This package contains the cuRAND runtime library.
There are three methods to install libcurand9.1 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 libcurand9.1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcurand9.1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcurand9.1
Install libcurand9.1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcurand9.1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcurand9.1
Install libcurand9.1 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 libcurand9.1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcurand9.1
How To Uninstall libcurand9.1 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libcurand9.1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcurand9.1
Uninstall libcurand9.1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcurand9.1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcurand9.1
Remove libcurand9.1 Configurations and Data
To remove libcurand9.1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcurand9.1
Remove libcurand9.1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcurand9.1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcurand9.1
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcurand9.1 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
