How To Install hwloc-nox on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hwloc-nox on Debian 10.
What is hwloc-nox
hwloc-nox 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, without X support), manipulate cpu masks (hwloc-calc), and bind processes (hwloc-bind).
There are three methods to install hwloc-nox 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 hwloc-nox Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hwloc-nox using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hwloc-nox
Install hwloc-nox Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hwloc-nox using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hwloc-nox
Install hwloc-nox 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 hwloc-nox using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hwloc-nox
How To Uninstall hwloc-nox on Debian 10
To uninstall only the hwloc-nox package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hwloc-nox
Uninstall hwloc-nox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hwloc-nox and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hwloc-nox
Remove hwloc-nox Configurations and Data
To remove hwloc-nox configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hwloc-nox
Remove hwloc-nox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hwloc-nox configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hwloc-nox
Dependencies
hwloc-nox have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hwloc-nox package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
