How To Install tau on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tau on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tau
tau is:
TAU is a profiling toolkit specially made for parallel computing (multi-thread, multi-process, MPI, PVM). It consists of an instrumentation API, which can be used manually (or added automatically by other instrumentation tools) to get runtime profiling information.
This package provides the API and library, and the command-line analysis tool. A Tcl/Tk-based GUI is available in package tau-racy.
This version is built with pthread support only. Support for PVM and MPI, as well as use of PCL or PAPI for the use of hardware counters, and of PDT or DynInst for automatic code instrumentation, are not available in packaged form yet.
There are three methods to install tau 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 tau Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tau using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tau
Install tau Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tau using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tau
Install tau 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 tau using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tau
How To Uninstall tau on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tau package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tau
Uninstall tau And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tau and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tau
Remove tau Configurations and Data
To remove tau configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tau
Remove tau configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tau configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tau
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tau package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
