Is it possible to install intel-mkl on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?

I know that this package is available via official repository only from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and in newer versions.

1 Answer

It is possible by downloading all the packages from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS repository using my Docker-based deb-download script and install them as follows:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7EA0A9C3F273FCD8 sudo add-apt-repository 'deb [arch=amd64] bionic stable' sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install docker-ce sudo usermod -a -G docker $USER # reboot cd ~/Downloads git clone cd deb-download chmod +x deb-download.sh ./deb-download.sh ubuntu focal libmkl-full-dev sudo apt-get install ./storage/*mkl*.deb 

Warning: be careful with these library packages if you need accurate calculation in Octave and similar apps.
To avoid bugs you may want to add export MKL_THREADING_LAYER=gnu to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile.

Note: removing of MKL is possible by single below command:
sudo apt autoremove --purge $(dpkg -l | grep mkl | grep 2020.0.166-1 | awk '{print $2}')