How To Install python3-numba on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-numba
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python3-numba
python3-numba is:
Numba compiles native machine code instructions from Python programs at runtime using the LLVM compiler infrastructure. It could be easily employed by decorating individual computation intensive functions in the Python code. Numba could significantly speed up the performance of computations, and optionally supports compilation to run on GPU processors through Nvidia’s CUDA platform. It integrates well with the Python scientific software stack, and especially recognizes Numpy arrays.
This package contains the modules for Python 3.
There are three methods to install python3-numba
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 python3-numba Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-numba
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-numba
Install python3-numba Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-numba
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-numba
Install python3-numba 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 python3-numba
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-numba
How To Uninstall python3-numba on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python3-numba
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-numba
Uninstall python3-numba And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-numba
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-numba
Remove python3-numba Configurations and Data
To remove python3-numba
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-numba
Remove python3-numba configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-numba
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-numba
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-numba
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.