How To Install libstarpu-contrib-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarpu-contrib-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libstarpu-contrib-dev
libstarpu-contrib-dev 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 development headers and libraries. This “contrib” version is built against CUDA.
There are three methods to install libstarpu-contrib-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libstarpu-contrib-dev 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-contrib-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libstarpu-contrib-dev
Install libstarpu-contrib-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libstarpu-contrib-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libstarpu-contrib-dev
Install libstarpu-contrib-dev 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 libstarpu-contrib-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libstarpu-contrib-dev
How To Uninstall libstarpu-contrib-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libstarpu-contrib-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libstarpu-contrib-dev
Uninstall libstarpu-contrib-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libstarpu-contrib-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libstarpu-contrib-dev
Remove libstarpu-contrib-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libstarpu-contrib-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libstarpu-contrib-dev
Remove libstarpu-contrib-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libstarpu-contrib-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libstarpu-contrib-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarpu-contrib-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.