How To Install librsb-tools on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install librsb-tools on Debian 12.
What is librsb-tools
librsb-tools is:
This is a library for sparse matrix computations featuring the Recursive Sparse Blocks (RSB) matrix format. This format allows cache efficient and multi-threaded (that is, shared memory parallel) operations on large sparse matrices. It provides the most common operations necessary to iterative solvers, like matrix-vector multiplication, triangular solution, rows/columns scaling, diagonal extraction / setting, blocks extraction, norm computation, formats conversion. The RSB format is especially well suited for symmetric and transposed multiplication variants.
This package contains the rsbench program for testing the functionality and performance of librsb.
There are three methods to install librsb-tools 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 librsb-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install librsb-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install librsb-tools
Install librsb-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install librsb-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install librsb-tools
Install librsb-tools 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 librsb-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install librsb-tools
How To Uninstall librsb-tools on Debian 12
To uninstall only the librsb-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove librsb-tools
Uninstall librsb-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall librsb-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove librsb-tools
Remove librsb-tools Configurations and Data
To remove librsb-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge librsb-tools
Remove librsb-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove librsb-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librsb-tools
Dependencies
librsb-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install librsb-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
