How To Install liblapack-test on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblapack-test on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liblapack-test
liblapack-test 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.
These testing programs have been run against the shared library in the lapack package. The results have been collected in the files test_results. These programs are provided separately here so that the user can test and compare alternate versions of the lapack libraries, such as those provided by the ATLAS packages, and the lapack package.
There are three methods to install liblapack-test 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-test 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-test using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblapack-test
Install liblapack-test Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblapack-test using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblapack-test
Install liblapack-test 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-test using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblapack-test
How To Uninstall liblapack-test on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liblapack-test package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblapack-test
Uninstall liblapack-test And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblapack-test and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblapack-test
Remove liblapack-test Configurations and Data
To remove liblapack-test configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblapack-test
Remove liblapack-test configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblapack-test configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblapack-test
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblapack-test package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
