How To Install libcusparse9.1 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcusparse9.1 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libcusparse9.1
libcusparse9.1 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 libcusparse9.1 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 libcusparse9.1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcusparse9.1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcusparse9.1
Install libcusparse9.1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcusparse9.1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcusparse9.1
Install libcusparse9.1 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 libcusparse9.1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcusparse9.1
How To Uninstall libcusparse9.1 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libcusparse9.1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcusparse9.1
Uninstall libcusparse9.1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcusparse9.1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcusparse9.1
Remove libcusparse9.1 Configurations and Data
To remove libcusparse9.1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcusparse9.1
Remove libcusparse9.1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcusparse9.1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcusparse9.1
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcusparse9.1 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
