How To Install libgloo-dev 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 libgloo-dev on Ubuntu.
What is libgloo-dev
libgloo-dev is:
Gloo is a collective communications library. It comes with a number of collective algorithms useful for machine learning applications. These include a barrier, broadcast, and allreduce.
Transport of data between participating machines is abstracted so that IP can be used at all times, or InifiniBand (or RoCE) when available. In the latter case, if the InfiniBand transport is used, GPUDirect can be used to accelerate cross machine GPU-to-GPU memory transfers.
Where applicable, algorithms have an implementation that works with system memory buffers, and one that works with NVIDIA GPU memory buffers. In the latter case, it is not necessary to copy memory between host and device; this is taken care of by the algorithm implementations.
This package ships the development files.
There are three methods to install libgloo-dev 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 libgloo-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 libgloo-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libgloo-dev
Install libgloo-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libgloo-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libgloo-dev
Install libgloo-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 libgloo-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libgloo-dev
How To Uninstall libgloo-dev on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libgloo-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libgloo-dev
Uninstall libgloo-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgloo-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgloo-dev
Remove libgloo-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libgloo-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libgloo-dev
Remove libgloo-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgloo-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgloo-dev
Dependencies
libgloo-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgloo-dev package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.