How To Install liboclgrind-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboclgrind-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liboclgrind-dev
liboclgrind-dev is:
Oclgrind is an extensible OpenCL device simulator that provides a plugin interface to facilitate the creation of tools to aid analysis and development of OpenCL programs. Among the tools that Oclgrind provides are various debugging aids, such as out-of-bounds memory access checking, data-race detection, and an interactive debugger.
This package provides the development headers and libraries used for creating new Oclgrind plugins.
There are three methods to install liboclgrind-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 liboclgrind-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 liboclgrind-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liboclgrind-dev
Install liboclgrind-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liboclgrind-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liboclgrind-dev
Install liboclgrind-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 liboclgrind-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liboclgrind-dev
How To Uninstall liboclgrind-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liboclgrind-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liboclgrind-dev
Uninstall liboclgrind-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liboclgrind-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboclgrind-dev
Remove liboclgrind-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liboclgrind-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liboclgrind-dev
Remove liboclgrind-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liboclgrind-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboclgrind-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboclgrind-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
