How To Install librsb0 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install librsb0 on Ubuntu 18.04.
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.
There are three methods to install librsb0 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove librsb0
Remove librsb0 Configurations and Data
To remove librsb0 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install librsb0 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
