How To Install librocsparse-dev on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install librocsparse-dev on Debian 12.
What is librocsparse-dev
librocsparse-dev is:
rocSPARSE is a library that implements BLAS operations for sparse data structures. It is built on the AMD ROCm platform and optimized for discrete AMD GPUs.
rocSPARSE provides a C99 API containing sparse level 1, sparse level 2 and sparse level 3 BLAS functions, as well as general matrix multiplication between dense and sparse matricies (GEMMI), sparse preconditioner functions, sparse matrix format conversion functions, and sparse matrix reordering functions.
It supports a variety of sparse matrix formats, including coordinate list in either array of structure form (COO) or structure of array form (COO SOA), compressed sparse row (CSR) or column (CSC), block compressed sparse row (BSR), general block compressed sparse row (GEBSR), and the ELLPACK-ITPACK format (ELL).
This package provides the AMD ROCm rocSPARSE development headers.
There are three methods to install librocsparse-dev 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 librocsparse-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 librocsparse-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install librocsparse-dev
Install librocsparse-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install librocsparse-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install librocsparse-dev
Install librocsparse-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install librocsparse-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install librocsparse-dev
How To Uninstall librocsparse-dev on Debian 12
To uninstall only the librocsparse-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove librocsparse-dev
Uninstall librocsparse-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall librocsparse-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove librocsparse-dev
Remove librocsparse-dev Configurations and Data
To remove librocsparse-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge librocsparse-dev
Remove librocsparse-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove librocsparse-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librocsparse-dev
Dependencies
librocsparse-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install librocsparse-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
