How To Install hwloc-nox on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hwloc-nox on Kali Linux.
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 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-nox Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install hwloc-nox using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hwloc-noxInstall hwloc-nox Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install hwloc-nox using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hwloc-noxInstall hwloc-nox 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install hwloc-nox using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hwloc-noxHow To Uninstall hwloc-nox on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the hwloc-nox package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hwloc-noxUninstall hwloc-nox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hwloc-nox and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hwloc-noxRemove hwloc-nox Configurations and Data
To remove hwloc-nox configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hwloc-noxRemove 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-noxDependencies
hwloc-nox have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hwloc-nox package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.