suite-sparse mit Homebrew, apt, zypper installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• suitesparse_mongoose

Projektgeschichte

The official SuiteSparse page describes a collection including GraphBLAS, Mongoose, UMFPACK, CHOLMOD, SPQR, KLU, ordering methods such as AMD and COLAMD, CSparse/CXSparse, and other sparse-matrix packages. The GitHub README identifies SuiteSparse as sparse-matrix-related packages written or co-authored by Tim Davis.

SuiteSparse's history is tied to numerical linear algebra and MATLAB as well as C/C++ libraries. The official page notes that UMFPACK, CHOLMOD, SPQR, ordering methods, and sparse multiplication components appear in MATLAB operations such as LU, Cholesky, QR, `x=A\b`, and `C=A*B`.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The Homebrew input records SuiteSparse availability through Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, and openSUSE-family package managers. Its adoption is less about a flashy CLI and more about being a foundational dependency that downstream packages link against for sparse direct solvers, ordering, graph partitioning, and GraphBLAS-style graph algorithms.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users install SuiteSparse to build or run software that needs sparse matrix factorization, ordering, graph partitioning, GraphBLAS operations, or MATLAB/Octave-adjacent numerical routines. The Homebrew package exposes `suitesparse_mongoose`, but the broader package value is the installed library suite and headers.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package nerds care about SuiteSparse because it is dependency plumbing at scientific scale: mixed licenses across subpackages, BLAS/LAPACK integration, optional CUDA acceleration, language bindings, and ABI-sensitive library packaging. It is exactly the sort of package where a manager's build flags and dependency graph matter.

Zeitleiste

• 2000s: SuiteSparse components such as UMFPACK, CHOLMOD, SPQR, AMD, COLAMD, CSparse, and CXSparse become established sparse-matrix building blocks.
• 2016: The official page references SuiteSparse 4.6.0 beta with multi-GPU CHOLMOD presented at NVIDIA GTC16.
• 2021: SuiteSparse 5.10.1 includes GraphBLAS, SLIP_LU, and a new SuiteSparse Matrix Collection interface.
• 2026: The official GitHub README lists SuiteSparse 7.12.2.

Related projects

• Related upstream components include SuiteSparse:GraphBLAS, Mongoose, UMFPACK, CHOLMOD, SPQR, KLU, BTF, AMD, CAMD, COLAMD, CCOLAMD, CSparse, CXSparse, and the SuiteSparse Matrix Collection.

Quellen

• Input package-manager data: source_facts.package-manager
• Official GitHub README: https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse#readme
• Official SuiteSparse page: https://people.engr.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html
• Official SuiteSparse:GraphBLAS page: https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/GraphBLAS