How To Install librocsparse0 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install librocsparse0 on Debian 12.
What is librocsparse0
librocsparse0 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 library.
There are three methods to install librocsparse0 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 librocsparse0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install librocsparse0 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install librocsparse0
Install librocsparse0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install librocsparse0 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install librocsparse0
Install librocsparse0 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 librocsparse0 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install librocsparse0
How To Uninstall librocsparse0 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the librocsparse0 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove librocsparse0
Uninstall librocsparse0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall librocsparse0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove librocsparse0
Remove librocsparse0 Configurations and Data
To remove librocsparse0 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge librocsparse0
Remove librocsparse0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove librocsparse0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librocsparse0
Dependencies
librocsparse0 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install librocsparse0 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
