How To Install accel-config on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install accel-config on Debian 12.
What is accel-config
accel-config is:
Intel Accelerator Utilities (accel-config) provides a user interface to the Intel Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA). DSA is a high-performance data copy and transformation accelerator integrated into Intel Xeon processors.
This package contains a utility for configuring the DSA (Data Stream Accelerator) subsystem in the Linux kernel.
There are three methods to install accel-config on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install accel-config Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install accel-config using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install accel-config
Install accel-config Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install accel-config using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install accel-config
Install accel-config Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install accel-config using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install accel-config
How To Uninstall accel-config on Debian 12
To uninstall only the accel-config package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove accel-config
Uninstall accel-config And Its Dependencies
To uninstall accel-config and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove accel-config
Remove accel-config Configurations and Data
To remove accel-config configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge accel-config
Remove accel-config configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove accel-config configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge accel-config
Dependencies
accel-config have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install accel-config package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
