How To Install libnvblas9.1 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvblas9.1 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libnvblas9.1
libnvblas9.1 is:
The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for massively parallel general purpose computation.
The NVBLAS Library is a GPU-accelerated Library that implements BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms). It can accelerate most BLAS Level-3 routines by dynamically routing BLAS calls to one or more NVIDIA GPUs present in the system, when the characteristics of the call make it to speedup on a GPU.
There are three methods to install libnvblas9.1 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 libnvblas9.1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libnvblas9.1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libnvblas9.1
Install libnvblas9.1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libnvblas9.1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libnvblas9.1
Install libnvblas9.1 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 libnvblas9.1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libnvblas9.1
How To Uninstall libnvblas9.1 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libnvblas9.1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libnvblas9.1
Uninstall libnvblas9.1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libnvblas9.1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnvblas9.1
Remove libnvblas9.1 Configurations and Data
To remove libnvblas9.1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libnvblas9.1
Remove libnvblas9.1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libnvblas9.1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnvblas9.1
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvblas9.1 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
