How To Install liblapacke on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblapacke
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is liblapacke
liblapacke 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 the Standard C language library for LAPACK.
There are three methods to install liblapacke
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 liblapacke Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblapacke
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblapacke
Install liblapacke Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblapacke
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblapacke
Install liblapacke 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 liblapacke
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblapacke
How To Uninstall liblapacke on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the liblapacke
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblapacke
Uninstall liblapacke And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblapacke
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblapacke
Remove liblapacke Configurations and Data
To remove liblapacke
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblapacke
Remove liblapacke configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblapacke
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblapacke
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblapacke
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.