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