How To Install libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 on Kali Linux.

What is libsocl-contrib-1.3-0

libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 is:

StarPU is a runtime system that offers support for heterogeneous multicore machines. While many efforts are devoted to design efficient computation kernels for those architectures (e.g. to implement BLAS kernels on GPUs or on Cell’s SPUs), StarPU not only takes care of offloading such kernels (and implementing data coherency across the machine), but it also makes sure the kernels are executed as efficiently as possible.

This package contains an OpenCL-compatible library interface to StarPU. This “contrib” version is built against CUDA.

There are three methods to install libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libsocl-contrib-1.3-0

Install libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libsocl-contrib-1.3-0

Install libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libsocl-contrib-1.3-0

How To Uninstall libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libsocl-contrib-1.3-0

Uninstall libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsocl-contrib-1.3-0

Remove libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 Configurations and Data

To remove libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libsocl-contrib-1.3-0

Remove libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsocl-contrib-1.3-0

Dependencies

libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libstarpu-contrib-1.3-5
• ocl-icd-libopencl1

References

• libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsocl-contrib-1.3-0 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.