Install openblas via apt-get `sudo apt-get install openblas-dev`

Posted on Jul 16, 2022

Question

Is it possible to install openblas via apt-get like sudo apt-get install openblas-dev?

Seems on ubuntu 14.04 it can't find it.

sudo apt-get install openblas-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package openblas-dev

Answer

apt-cache search openblas

libblas-test - Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3, testing programs libopenblas-base - Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library based on GotoBLAS2 libopenblas-dev - Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library based on GotoBLAS2

So sudo apt-get install libopenblas-dev solved the problem.