starpu_machine_display command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

starpu_machine_display: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: starpu_machine_display: command not found

Solutions to starpu_machine_display: command not found

How To Fix starpu_machine_display: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu starpu_machine_display is provided by starpu-contrib-tools package.

starpu-contrib-tools 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 StarPU tools. This “contrib” version is built against CUDA.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install starpu-contrib-tools

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install starpu-contrib-tools.

sudo apt -y install starpu-contrib-tools

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install starpu-contrib-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix starpu_machine_display command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.