How To Install tbb-examples on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tbb-examples on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tbb-examples
tbb-examples is:
TBB is a library that helps you leverage multi-core processor performance without having to be a threading expert. It represents a higher-level, task-based parallelism that abstracts platform details and threading mechanism for performance and scalability.
This package includes the TBB example files.
There are three methods to install tbb-examples 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 tbb-examples Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tbb-examples using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tbb-examples
Install tbb-examples Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tbb-examples using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tbb-examples
Install tbb-examples 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 tbb-examples using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tbb-examples
How To Uninstall tbb-examples on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tbb-examples package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tbb-examples
Uninstall tbb-examples And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tbb-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tbb-examples
Remove tbb-examples Configurations and Data
To remove tbb-examples configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tbb-examples
Remove tbb-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tbb-examples configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tbb-examples
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tbb-examples package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
