How To Install hwloc on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hwloc
on Kali Linux.
What is hwloc
hwloc is:
Hardware Locality (hwloc) 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.
hwloc 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.
hwloc supports old kernels not having sysfs topology information, with knowledge of cpusets, offline cpus, and Kerrighed support
This package contains utilities to show the topology of the machine (lstopo and hwloc-ls), manipulate cpu masks (hwloc-calc), and bind processes (hwloc-bind).
There are three methods to install hwloc
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 hwloc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install hwloc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install hwloc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install hwloc
using apt
by running the following command:
Install hwloc 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.
After updating apt database, We can install hwloc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall hwloc on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the hwloc
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall hwloc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hwloc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove hwloc Configurations and Data
To remove hwloc
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove hwloc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hwloc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
hwloc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hwloc
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.