How To Install libhwloc-plugins on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhwloc-plugins on Debian 9. libhwloc-plugins is Hierarchical view of the machine - plugins

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhwloc-plugins on Debian 9.

What is libhwloc-plugins

libhwloc-plugins is:

libhwloc provides a portable abstraction (across OS, versions, architectures, …) of the hierarchical topology of modern architectures. It primarily aims at helping high-performance computing applications with gathering information about the hardware so as to exploit it accordingly and efficiently.

libhwloc provides a hierarchical view of the machine, NUMA memory nodes, sockets, shared caches, cores and simultaneous multithreading. It also gathers various attributes such as cache and memory information.

libhwloc supports old kernels not having sysfs topology information, with knowledge of cpusets, offline cpus, and Kerrighed support

This package contains plugins to add more discovery support. This includes

  • PCI support
  • libxml support

There are three methods to install libhwloc-plugins on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libhwloc-plugins Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libhwloc-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libhwloc-plugins

Install libhwloc-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libhwloc-plugins using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libhwloc-plugins

Install libhwloc-plugins 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 libhwloc-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libhwloc-plugins

How To Uninstall libhwloc-plugins on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libhwloc-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libhwloc-plugins

Uninstall libhwloc-plugins And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libhwloc-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhwloc-plugins

Remove libhwloc-plugins Configurations and Data

To remove libhwloc-plugins configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libhwloc-plugins

Remove libhwloc-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libhwloc-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhwloc-plugins

Dependencies

libhwloc-plugins have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhwloc-plugins package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.