How To Install starpu_sched_display on Debian 11

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install starpu-tools

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is starpu_sched_display and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Debian 11. This guide was written specifically with a server running Debian 11 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install starpu_sched_display on Debian 11. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install starpu_sched_display using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt-get database, You can install starpu_sched_display using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install starpu-tools

Install starpu_sched_display using apt

Because starpu_sched_display is available in Debian 11’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install starpu_sched_display using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install starpu-tools

Install starpu_sched_display 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 Debian 11. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install starpu_sched_display by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install starpu-tools

How to upgrade (update) a single package starpu_sched_display using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the starpu_sched_display, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install starpu-tools

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install starpu-tools

How To Uninstall starpu_sched_display from Debian 11

To uninstall only the starpu_sched_display package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove starpu-tools

Uninstall starpu_sched_display and all its dependencies

To uninstall starpu_sched_display and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove starpu-tools

Remove starpu_sched_display with all configurations and data

To remove starpu_sched_display configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge starpu-tools

Remove starpu_sched_display completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to starpu_sched_display package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

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

Extra info and code examples

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 StarPU tools.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install starpu_sched_display using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the starpu_sched_display from Debian 11.

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