How To Install python-gpyfft on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-gpyfft
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-gpyfft
python-gpyfft is:
This python wrapper is designed to tightly integrate with PyOpenCL. It consists of a low-level Cython based wrapper with an interface similar to the underlying C library. On top of that it offers a high-level interface designed to work on data contained in instances of pyopencl.array.Array, a numpy work-alike array class for GPU computations. The high-level interface takes some inspiration from pyFFTW. For details of the high-level interface see fft.py.
This package installs the library for Python 2.
There are three methods to install python-gpyfft
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 python-gpyfft Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-gpyfft
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-gpyfft
Install python-gpyfft Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-gpyfft
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-gpyfft
Install python-gpyfft 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 python-gpyfft
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-gpyfft
How To Uninstall python-gpyfft on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-gpyfft
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-gpyfft
Uninstall python-gpyfft And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-gpyfft
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-gpyfft
Remove python-gpyfft Configurations and Data
To remove python-gpyfft
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-gpyfft
Remove python-gpyfft configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-gpyfft
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-gpyfft
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-gpyfft
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.