How To Install libpapi5.7 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpapi5.7
on Debian 10.
What is libpapi5.7
libpapi5.7 is:
Performance Application Programming Interface (PAPI) provides the tool designer and application engineer with a consistent interface and methodology for use of the performance counter hardware found in most major microprocessors. PAPI enables software engineers to see, in near real time, the relation between software performance and processor events.
In addition Component PAPI provides access to a collection of components that expose performance measurement opportunites across the hardware and software stack.
Accessing performance counters from userspace may require reducing the paranoia level in /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid, see README.Debian for details.
This package provides the shared library.
There are three methods to install libpapi5.7
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libpapi5.7 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libpapi5.7
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libpapi5.7
Install libpapi5.7 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libpapi5.7
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libpapi5.7
Install libpapi5.7 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 libpapi5.7
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libpapi5.7
How To Uninstall libpapi5.7 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libpapi5.7
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libpapi5.7
Uninstall libpapi5.7 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpapi5.7
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpapi5.7
Remove libpapi5.7 Configurations and Data
To remove libpapi5.7
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libpapi5.7
Remove libpapi5.7 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpapi5.7
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpapi5.7
Dependencies
libpapi5.7 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpapi5.7
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.