How To Install libopensm5a on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopensm5a
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libopensm5a
libopensm5a is:
OpenSM provides an implementation of an InfiniBand Subnet Manager (SM) and Administrator (SA). One Subnet Manager is required to run on each InfiniBand subnet in order to initialize the InfiniBand hardware.
There are three methods to install libopensm5a
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 libopensm5a Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libopensm5a
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libopensm5a
Install libopensm5a Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libopensm5a
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libopensm5a
Install libopensm5a 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 libopensm5a
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libopensm5a
How To Uninstall libopensm5a on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libopensm5a
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libopensm5a
Uninstall libopensm5a And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libopensm5a
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopensm5a
Remove libopensm5a Configurations and Data
To remove libopensm5a
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libopensm5a
Remove libopensm5a configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libopensm5a
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopensm5a
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopensm5a
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.