How To Install liblbfgsb-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblbfgsb-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liblbfgsb-dev
liblbfgsb-dev is:
Fortran library implementing limited-memory quasi-Newton bound-constrained optimization as described in [1,2,3].
This package contains the static library.
[1] R. H. Byrd, P. Lu and J. Nocedal. A Limited Memory Algorithm for Bound Constrained Optimization, (1995), SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing , 16, 5, pp. 1190-1208.
[2] C. Zhu, R. H. Byrd and J. Nocedal. L-BFGS-B: Algorithm 778: L-BFGS-B, FORTRAN routines for large scale bound constrained optimization (1997), ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol 23, Num. 4, pp. 550 - 560.
[3] J.L. Morales and J. Nocedal. L-BFGS-B: Remark on Algorithm 778: L-BFGS-B, FORTRAN routines for large scale bound constrained optimization (2011), to appear in ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software.
There are three methods to install liblbfgsb-dev 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 liblbfgsb-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 liblbfgsb-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblbfgsb-dev
Install liblbfgsb-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblbfgsb-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblbfgsb-dev
Install liblbfgsb-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 liblbfgsb-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblbfgsb-dev
How To Uninstall liblbfgsb-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liblbfgsb-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblbfgsb-dev
Uninstall liblbfgsb-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblbfgsb-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblbfgsb-dev
Remove liblbfgsb-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liblbfgsb-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblbfgsb-dev
Remove liblbfgsb-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblbfgsb-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblbfgsb-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblbfgsb-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
