How To Install intel-cmt-cat on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install intel-cmt-cat on Kali Linux.

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 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 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 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 intel-cmt-cat using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install intel-cmt-cat

How To Uninstall intel-cmt-cat on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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:

• libc6

References

• intel-cmt-cat website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install intel-cmt-cat package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.