How To Install pocl-doc on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pocl-doc on Debian 9.

What is pocl-doc

pocl-doc is:

Portable Computing Language is an open source implementation of the OpenCL standard which can be easily adapted for new targets. One of the goals of the project is improving performance portability of OpenCL programs, avoiding the need for target-dependent manual optimizations. A “native” target is included, which allows running OpenCL kernels on the host (CPU).

This package provides the development files for the pocl library. Unless very specific needs, this package is useless. This package is only required to link directly and explicitly with pocl.

This package provides the documentation for the pocl library.

There are three methods to install pocl-doc on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install pocl-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pocl-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pocl-doc

Install pocl-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pocl-doc

Install pocl-doc 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install pocl-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pocl-doc

How To Uninstall pocl-doc on Debian 9

To uninstall only the pocl-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pocl-doc

Uninstall pocl-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pocl-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pocl-doc

Remove pocl-doc Configurations and Data

To remove pocl-doc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pocl-doc

Remove pocl-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pocl-doc

Dependencies

pocl-doc have the following dependencies:

• libjs-sphinxdoc

References

• pocl-doc website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pocl-doc package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.