How To Install libopenblas-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenblas-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. libopenblas-dev is Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library (dev, meta) Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library (dev, meta)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenblas-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is libopenblas-dev

libopenblas-dev is:

OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.

Unlike Atlas, OpenBLAS provides a multiple architecture library.

All kernel will be included in the library and dynamically switched to the best architecture at run time (only on amd64, arm64, i386 and ppc64el).

This package includes the static libraries and symbolic links needed for program development.

Package: libopenblas-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.3.8+ds-1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: universe/libdevel Source: openblas Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Science Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 50 Depends: libopenblas0 (= 0.3.8+ds-1), libopenblas-pthread-dev | libopenblas-openmp-dev | libopenblas-serial-dev Breaks: libatlas-base-dev (« 3.10.3-4~), libblas-dev (« 3.7.1-2~), liblapack-dev (« 3.7.1-2~) Filename: pool/universe/o/openblas/libopenblas-dev_0.3.8+ds-1_amd64.deb Size: 16412 MD5sum: 2d18a02d44eb877b10bc5e078d135d63 SHA1: 4ec6ec1a01b1cf7f5c27b9f9444d2e956b705b80 SHA256: 85114947117690db440eccd08299b31586d4ac534eefd0faa92b693756e71407 Homepage: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS Description-en: Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library (dev, meta) OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.

Unlike Atlas, OpenBLAS provides a multiple architecture library.

All kernel will be included in the library and dynamically switched to the best architecture at run time (only on amd64, arm64, i386 and ppc64el).

This package includes the static libraries and symbolic links needed for program development.

There are three methods to install libopenblas-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libopenblas-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libopenblas-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libopenblas-dev

Install libopenblas-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libopenblas-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libopenblas-dev

Install libopenblas-dev 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 libopenblas-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libopenblas-dev

How To Uninstall libopenblas-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the libopenblas-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libopenblas-dev

Uninstall libopenblas-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libopenblas-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopenblas-dev

Remove libopenblas-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libopenblas-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libopenblas-dev

Remove libopenblas-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libopenblas-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopenblas-dev

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenblas-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.