How To Install librsb0 on Debian 12

Learn how to install librsb0 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. librsb0 is shared-memory Sparse BLAS library using the RSB matrix format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librsb0 on Debian 12.

What is librsb0

librsb0 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 shared library and the rsbench utility.

There are three methods to install librsb0 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 librsb0 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install librsb0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install librsb0

Install librsb0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install librsb0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install librsb0

Install librsb0 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 librsb0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install librsb0

How To Uninstall librsb0 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the librsb0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove librsb0

Uninstall librsb0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall librsb0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove librsb0

Remove librsb0 Configurations and Data

To remove librsb0 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge librsb0

Remove librsb0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove librsb0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librsb0

Dependencies

librsb0 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install librsb0 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.