How To Install libstarpu-1.3-5 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarpu-1.3-5 on Kali Linux.

What is libstarpu-1.3-5

libstarpu-1.3-5 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 the main StarPU library

There are three methods to install libstarpu-1.3-5 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 libstarpu-1.3-5 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libstarpu-1.3-5 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libstarpu-1.3-5

Install libstarpu-1.3-5 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libstarpu-1.3-5 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libstarpu-1.3-5

Install libstarpu-1.3-5 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 libstarpu-1.3-5 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libstarpu-1.3-5

How To Uninstall libstarpu-1.3-5 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libstarpu-1.3-5 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libstarpu-1.3-5

Uninstall libstarpu-1.3-5 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libstarpu-1.3-5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libstarpu-1.3-5

Remove libstarpu-1.3-5 Configurations and Data

To remove libstarpu-1.3-5 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libstarpu-1.3-5

Remove libstarpu-1.3-5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libstarpu-1.3-5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libstarpu-1.3-5

Dependencies

libstarpu-1.3-5 have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libglpk40
• libhwloc15
• ocl-icd-libopencl1

References

• libstarpu-1.3-5 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarpu-1.3-5 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.