How To Install prctl on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prctl
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is prctl
prctl is:
prctl is a tool to query and modify process behavior. Supported process behavior is handling of unaligned memory access, handling of floating point software assist faults and machine check memory corruption kill policy. Some of this functionality is supported by the kernel only on a subset of architectures.
There are three methods to install prctl
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install prctl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install prctl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install prctl
Install prctl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install prctl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install prctl
Install prctl 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install prctl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install prctl
How To Uninstall prctl on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the prctl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove prctl
Uninstall prctl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall prctl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove prctl
Remove prctl Configurations and Data
To remove prctl
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge prctl
Remove prctl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove prctl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prctl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prctl
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.