How To Install starpu-examples on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install starpu-examples on Kali Linux. starpu-examples is Task scheduler for heterogeneous multicore machines – exs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install starpu-examples on Kali Linux.

What is `starpu-examples`

starpu-examples is:

StarPU is a runtime system that offers support for heterogeneous
multicore machines. While many efforts are devoted to design efficient
computation kernels for those architectures (e.g. to implement BLAS
kernels on GPUs or on Cell’s SPUs), StarPU not only takes care of
offloading such kernels (and implementing data coherency across
the machine), but it also makes sure the kernels are executed as
efficiently as possible.

This package contains application examples.

There are three methods to install starpu-examples on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install starpu-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 starpu-examples using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install starpu-examples

Install starpu-examples Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install starpu-examples

Install starpu-examples Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install starpu-examples using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install starpu-examples

How To Uninstall starpu-examples on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the starpu-examples package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove starpu-examples

Uninstall starpu-examples And Its Dependencies

To uninstall starpu-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove starpu-examples

Remove starpu-examples Configurations and Data

To remove starpu-examples configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge starpu-examples

Remove starpu-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge starpu-examples

Dependencies

starpu-examples have the following dependencies:

References

starpu-examples website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install starpu-examples package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.