How To Install libopenblas0 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libopenblas0 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libopenblas0 is Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library (meta)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenblas0 on Debian 12.

What is libopenblas0

libopenblas0 is:

OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.

On amd64, arm64, i386, ppc64el, s390x, kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386, all kernels are included in the library and the one matching best your processor is selected at runtime.

On other architectures, for maximum performance, you may want to rebuild OpenBLAS locally, see the section: ??Building an optimized OpenBLAS package for your machine?? in README.Debian.

There are three methods to install libopenblas0 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libopenblas0 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libopenblas0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libopenblas0

Install libopenblas0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libopenblas0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libopenblas0

Install libopenblas0 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libopenblas0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libopenblas0

How To Uninstall libopenblas0 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libopenblas0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libopenblas0

Uninstall libopenblas0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libopenblas0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopenblas0

Remove libopenblas0 Configurations and Data

To remove libopenblas0 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libopenblas0

Remove libopenblas0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libopenblas0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopenblas0

Dependencies

libopenblas0 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenblas0 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.