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Hot swap BLAS and LAPACK for use with R on Debian/Ubuntu
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# OpenBLAS serial
sudo apt-get install libopenblas-serial-dev
sudo update-alternatives --set libblas.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-serial/libblas.so.3
sudo update-alternatives --set liblapack.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-serial/liblapack.so.3
# OpenBLAS pthread
sudo apt-get install libopenblas-base
sudo update-alternatives --set libblas.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libblas.so.3
sudo update-alternatives --set liblapack.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/liblapack.so.3
# OpenBLAS OpenMP
sudo apt-get install libopenblas-openmp-dev
sudo update-alternatives --set libblas.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-openmp/libblas.so.3
sudo update-alternatives --set liblapack.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-openmp/liblapack.so.3
# ATLAS
sudo update-alternatives --set libblas.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/atlas/libblas.so.3
sudo update-alternatives --set liblapack.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/atlas/liblapack.so.3
# Default
sudo update-alternatives --set libblas.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3
sudo update-alternatives --set liblapack.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3
# Intel MKL
sudo apt-get install intel-mkl
sudo update-alternatives --set libblas.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmkl_rt.so
sudo update-alternatives --set liblapack.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmkl_rt.so
# https://csantill.github.io/RPerformanceWBLAS/
sudo update-alternatives --config libblas.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu
sudo update-alternatives --config liblapack.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu
# AMD
sudo apt-get install libblis-dev
# check on AARCH64
sudo update-alternatives --list libblas.so.3-aarch64-linux-gnu
sudo update-alternatives --list liblapack.so.3-aarch64-linux-gnu
sudo update-alternatives --get-selections
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