How To Install cpulimit on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cpulimit on Kali Linux.

What is cpulimit

cpulimit is:

cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the CPU usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in CPU time). This is useful to control batch jobs, when you don’t want them to eat too much CPU. It does not act on the nice value or other priority stuff, but on the real CPU usage. Besides it is able to adapt itself to the overall system load, dynamically and quickly.

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

Install cpulimit Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cpulimit

Install cpulimit Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cpulimit

Install cpulimit Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install cpulimit

How To Uninstall cpulimit on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove cpulimit

Uninstall cpulimit And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cpulimit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cpulimit

Remove cpulimit Configurations and Data

To remove cpulimit configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cpulimit

Remove cpulimit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cpulimit

Dependencies

cpulimit have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• cpulimit website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cpulimit package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.