How To Install intel-cmt-cat on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install intel-cmt-cat on Debian 10.
What is intel-cmt-cat
intel-cmt-cat is:
intel-cmt-cat provides monitoring and configuration of Intel Cache Monitoring Technology (CMT), Memory Bandwidth Monitoring (MBM) and Cache Allocation Technology (CAT) features on modern Intel (R) Xeon (R) processors: Xeon D, Xeon E5 v3, Xeon E3 v4, or later models.
There are three methods to install intel-cmt-cat 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 intel-cmt-cat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install intel-cmt-cat using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install intel-cmt-cat
Install intel-cmt-cat Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install intel-cmt-cat using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install intel-cmt-cat
Install intel-cmt-cat 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 intel-cmt-cat using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install intel-cmt-cat
How To Uninstall intel-cmt-cat on Debian 10
To uninstall only the intel-cmt-cat package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove intel-cmt-cat
Uninstall intel-cmt-cat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall intel-cmt-cat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove intel-cmt-cat
Remove intel-cmt-cat Configurations and Data
To remove intel-cmt-cat configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge intel-cmt-cat
Remove intel-cmt-cat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove intel-cmt-cat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge intel-cmt-cat
Dependencies
intel-cmt-cat have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install intel-cmt-cat package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.