How To Install libcusparse11 on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcusparse11 on Ubuntu.
What is libcusparse11
libcusparse11 is:
The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for massively parallel general purpose computation.
The cuSPARSE library contains a set of basic linear algebra subroutines used for handling sparse matrices. It is implemented on top of the NVIDIA CUDA runtime and is designed to be called from C and C++. The library routines can be classified into four categories:
- Level 1: operations between a vector in sparse format and a vector in dense format
- Level 2: operations between a matrix in sparse format and a vector in dense format
- Level 3: operations between a matrix in sparse format and a set of vectors in dense format
- Conversion: operations that allow conversion between different matrix formats
This package contains the cuSPARSE runtime library.
There are three methods to install libcusparse11 on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcusparse11 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcusparse11 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcusparse11
Install libcusparse11 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcusparse11 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcusparse11
Install libcusparse11 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 libcusparse11 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcusparse11
How To Uninstall libcusparse11 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libcusparse11 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcusparse11
Uninstall libcusparse11 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcusparse11 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcusparse11
Remove libcusparse11 Configurations and Data
To remove libcusparse11 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcusparse11
Remove libcusparse11 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcusparse11 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcusparse11
Dependencies
libcusparse11 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcusparse11 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.