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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2018/06/24#019_mkl_soon_in_debian"> Thinking inside the box </a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>Welcome to the (very brief) nineteenth post in the <em>ruefully recalcitrant R reflections</em> series of posts, or <span><em>R</em><sup>4</sup></span> for short.</p>
<p>About two months ago, in the most recent post in the series, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2018/04/15#018_mkl_for_debian_ubuntu" target="_blank">#18</a>, we provided a short tutorial about how to add the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://software.intel.com/en-us/mkl?cid=sem43700010399172562&intel_term=%2Bintel%20%2Bmkl&gclid=Cj0KCQjwzcbWBRDmARIsAM6uChXqzD4ACUJqCiu3zRJKA9rkC31XOhm9lIkEYiwBITMR_8hJbIAExF8aAn_LEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds" target="_blank">Intel Math Kernel Library</a> to a <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.debian.org/" target="_blank">Debian</a> or <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ubuntu.com/" target="_blank">Ubuntu</a> system thanks to the wonderful <code>apt</code> tool — and the prepackaged binaries by Intel. This made for a simple, reproducible, scriptable, and even reversible (!!) solution—which a few people seem to have appreciated. Good.</p>
<p>In the meantime, more good things happened. Debian maintainer Mo Zhou had posted <a rel="nofollow" href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895881" target="_blank">this ‘intent-to-package’ bug report</a> leading to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/intel-mkl" target="_blank">this git repo on salsa</a> and this <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/intel-mkl_2018.3.222-1.html" target="_blank">set of packages</a> currently in the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html" target="_blank">‘NEW’ package queue</a>.</p>
<p>So stay tuned, &quot;soon&quot; (for various definitions of &quot;soon&quot;) we should be able to directly get the MKL onto Debian systems via <code>apt</code> without needing Intel’s repo. And in a release or two, Ubuntu should catch up. The fastest multithreaded BLAS and LAPACK for everybody, well-integrated and package. That said, it is still a monstrously large package so I mostly stick with the (truly open source rather than just ‘gratis’) <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.openblas.net/" target="_blank">OpenBLAS</a> but hey, choice is good. And yes, technically these packages are ‘outside’ of Debian in the <code>non-free</code> section but they will be visible by almost all default configurations.</p>
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This post by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/" target="_blank">Dirk Eddelbuettel</a> originated on his <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/" target="_blank">Thinking inside the box</a> blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.</p>
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