How To Install libstarpu-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarpu-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libstarpu-dev
libstarpu-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.
There are three methods to install libstarpu-dev 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 libstarpu-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-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libstarpu-dev
Install libstarpu-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libstarpu-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libstarpu-dev
Install libstarpu-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-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libstarpu-dev
How To Uninstall libstarpu-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libstarpu-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libstarpu-dev
Uninstall libstarpu-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libstarpu-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libstarpu-dev
Remove libstarpu-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libstarpu-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libstarpu-dev
Remove libstarpu-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libstarpu-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libstarpu-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarpu-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
