How To Install libxgboost-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 libxgboost-dev on Ubuntu.
What is libxgboost-dev
libxgboost-dev is:
XGBoost is an optimized distributed gradient boosting library designed to be highly efficient, flexible and portable. It implements machine learning algorithms under the Gradient Boosting framework. XGBoost provides a parallel tree boosting (also known as GBDT, GBM) that solve many data science problems in a fast and accurate way. The same code runs on major distributed environment (Kubernetes, Hadoop, SGE, MPI, Dask) and can solve problems beyond billions of examples.
This package contains the xgboost development files.
There are three methods to install libxgboost-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 libxgboost-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 libxgboost-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libxgboost-dev
Install libxgboost-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libxgboost-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libxgboost-dev
Install libxgboost-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 libxgboost-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libxgboost-dev
How To Uninstall libxgboost-dev on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libxgboost-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libxgboost-dev
Uninstall libxgboost-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libxgboost-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxgboost-dev
Remove libxgboost-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libxgboost-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libxgboost-dev
Remove libxgboost-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libxgboost-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxgboost-dev
Dependencies
libxgboost-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxgboost-dev package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.