How To Install libxnnpack-dev on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxnnpack-dev on Kali Linux. libxnnpack-dev is High-efficiency floating-point neural network inference operators (dev)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxnnpack-dev on Kali Linux.

What is libxnnpack-dev

libxnnpack-dev is:

XNNPACK is a highly optimized library of floating-point neural network inference operators for ARM, WebAssembly, and x86 platforms. XNNPACK is not intended for direct use by deep learning practitioners and researchers; instead it provides low-level performance primitives for accelerating high-level machine learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow Lite, TensorFlow.js, PyTorch, and MediaPipe.

This package contains the development files.

There are three methods to install libxnnpack-dev 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 libxnnpack-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 libxnnpack-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libxnnpack-dev

Install libxnnpack-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libxnnpack-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libxnnpack-dev

Install libxnnpack-dev 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 libxnnpack-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libxnnpack-dev

How To Uninstall libxnnpack-dev on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libxnnpack-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libxnnpack-dev

Uninstall libxnnpack-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxnnpack-dev

Remove libxnnpack-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libxnnpack-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libxnnpack-dev

Remove libxnnpack-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libxnnpack-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxnnpack-dev

Dependencies

libxnnpack-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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