How To Install liblapack-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblapack-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is liblapack-dev
liblapack-dev is:
LAPACK version 3.X is a comprehensive FORTRAN library that does linear algebra operations including matrix inversions, least squared solutions to linear sets of equations, eigenvector analysis, singular value decomposition, etc. It is a very comprehensive and reputable package that has found extensive use in the scientific community.
This package contains a static version of the library.
There are three methods to install liblapack-dev
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 liblapack-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblapack-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblapack-dev
Install liblapack-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblapack-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblapack-dev
Install liblapack-dev 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 liblapack-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblapack-dev
How To Uninstall liblapack-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the liblapack-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblapack-dev
Uninstall liblapack-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblapack-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblapack-dev
Remove liblapack-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liblapack-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblapack-dev
Remove liblapack-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblapack-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblapack-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblapack-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.