How To Install libcusparse11 on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcusparse11 on Kali Linux. libcusparse11 is NVIDIA cuSPARSE Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcusparse11 on Kali Linux.

What is libcusparse11

libcusparse11 is:

The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for massively parallel general purpose computation.

The cuSPARSE library contains a set of basic linear algebra subroutines used for handling sparse matrices. It is implemented on top of the NVIDIA CUDA runtime and is designed to be called from C and C++. The library routines can be classified into four categories:

  • Level 1: operations between a vector in sparse format and a vector in dense format
  • Level 2: operations between a matrix in sparse format and a vector in dense format
  • Level 3: operations between a matrix in sparse format and a set of vectors in dense format
  • Conversion: operations that allow conversion between different matrix formats

This package contains the cuSPARSE runtime library.

There are three methods to install libcusparse11 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 libcusparse11 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libcusparse11 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libcusparse11

Install libcusparse11 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libcusparse11 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libcusparse11

Install libcusparse11 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 update

After updating apt database, We can install libcusparse11 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcusparse11

How To Uninstall libcusparse11 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libcusparse11 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libcusparse11

Uninstall libcusparse11 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libcusparse11 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcusparse11

Remove libcusparse11 Configurations and Data

To remove libcusparse11 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libcusparse11

Remove libcusparse11 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libcusparse11 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcusparse11

Dependencies

libcusparse11 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcusparse11 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.