How To Install libopenblas64-pthread-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenblas64-pthread-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libopenblas64-pthread-dev
libopenblas64-pthread-dev is:
OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.
Unlike Atlas, OpenBLAS provides a multiple architecture library.
All kernel will be included in the library and dynamically switched to the best architecture at run time (only on amd64, arm64, i386 and ppc64el).
This package includes the static libraries and symbolic links needed for program development.
Configuration: USE_THREAD=1 USE_OPENMP=0 INTERFACE64=1
Package: libopenblas64-pthread-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.3.8+ds-1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: universe/libdevel Source: openblas Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Science Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 55535 Provides: libblas64.so, liblapack64.so Depends: libopenblas64-0-pthread (= 0.3.8+ds-1) Filename: pool/universe/o/openblas/libopenblas64-pthread-dev_0.3.8+ds-1_amd64.deb Size: 4362296 MD5sum: 0d3706b7bf7970ec74cf0a9a0b029809 SHA1: 468040f45a3ae3cbea4000e9f9b46b7c70a4dfb4 SHA256: 8727cf370fa57f80b9506389ba401c85612a8b8439229615662fe3bc67a01674 Homepage: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS Description-en: Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library (dev, 64bit, pthread) OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.
Unlike Atlas, OpenBLAS provides a multiple architecture library.
All kernel will be included in the library and dynamically switched to the best architecture at run time (only on amd64, arm64, i386 and ppc64el).
This package includes the static libraries and symbolic links needed for program development.
Configuration: USE_THREAD=1 USE_OPENMP=0 INTERFACE64=1
There are three methods to install libopenblas64-pthread-dev 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 libopenblas64-pthread-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 libopenblas64-pthread-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libopenblas64-pthread-dev
Install libopenblas64-pthread-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libopenblas64-pthread-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libopenblas64-pthread-dev
Install libopenblas64-pthread-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 libopenblas64-pthread-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libopenblas64-pthread-dev
How To Uninstall libopenblas64-pthread-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libopenblas64-pthread-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libopenblas64-pthread-dev
Uninstall libopenblas64-pthread-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libopenblas64-pthread-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopenblas64-pthread-dev
Remove libopenblas64-pthread-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libopenblas64-pthread-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libopenblas64-pthread-dev
Remove libopenblas64-pthread-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libopenblas64-pthread-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopenblas64-pthread-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenblas64-pthread-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.