How To Install liblapack-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblapack-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liblapack-doc
liblapack-doc 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:
- manpages of BLAS and LAPACK routines,
- the Lapack User’s Guide manual (in HTML),
- the manual for the LAPACKE C interface to LAPACK (in PDF).
There are three methods to install liblapack-doc 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 liblapack-doc 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-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblapack-doc
Install liblapack-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblapack-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblapack-doc
Install liblapack-doc 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-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblapack-doc
How To Uninstall liblapack-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liblapack-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblapack-doc
Uninstall liblapack-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblapack-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblapack-doc
Remove liblapack-doc Configurations and Data
To remove liblapack-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblapack-doc
Remove liblapack-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblapack-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblapack-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblapack-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
