How To Install tuna on Debian 10

Learn how to install tuna on Debian 10 with this tutorial. tuna is Application tuning GUI & command line utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tuna on Debian 10.

What is tuna

tuna is:

Provides interface for changing scheduler and IRQ tunables, at whole CPU and at per thread/IRQ level. Allows isolating CPUs for use by a specific application and moving threads and interrupts to a CPU by just dragging and dropping them. Operations can be done on CPU sockets, understanding CPU topology.

Can be used as a command line utility without requiring the GUI libraries to be installed.

There are three methods to install tuna 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 tuna Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tuna

Install tuna Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tuna using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tuna

Install tuna 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 tuna using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tuna

How To Uninstall tuna on Debian 10

To uninstall only the tuna package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tuna

Uninstall tuna And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tuna and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tuna

Remove tuna Configurations and Data

To remove tuna configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tuna

Remove tuna configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tuna

Dependencies

tuna have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tuna package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.