How To Install hwloc-nox on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install hwloc-nox on Kali Linux. hwloc-nox is Hierarchical view of the machine - non-X version of utilities

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 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 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 hwloc-nox using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hwloc-nox

How 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-nox

Uninstall 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-nox

Remove 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-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 Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.