How To Install libcpuinfo0 on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcpuinfo0 on Debian 11. libcpuinfo0 is CPU INFOrmation library (shared object)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcpuinfo0 on Debian 11.

What is libcpuinfo0

libcpuinfo0 is:

cpuinfo is a library to detect essential for performance optimization information about host CPU.

Features

  • Cross-platform availability:
    • Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS operating systems
    • x86, x86-64, ARM, and ARM64 architectures
  • Modern C/C++ interface
    • Thread-safe
    • No memory allocation after initialization
    • No exceptions thrown
  • Detection of supported instruction sets, up to AVX512 (x86) and ARMv8.3 extensions
  • Detection of SoC and core information:
    • Processor (SoC) name
    • Integrated GPU name (Android/iOS only)
    • Vendor, microarchitecture, and ID (MIDR on ARM, CPUID leaf 1 EAX value on x86) for each CPU core
  • Detection of cache information:
    • Cache type (instruction/data/unified), size and line size
    • Cache associativity
    • Cores and logical processors (hyper-threads) sharing the cache
  • Detection of topology information (relative between logical processors, cores, and processor packages)
  • Well-tested production-quality code:
    • 60+ mock tests based on data from real devices
    • Includes work-arounds for common bugs in hardware and OS kernels
    • Supports systems with heterogenous cores, such as big.LITTLE and Max.Med.Min
  • Permissive open-source license (Simplified BSD)

This package ships with the shared object.

There are three methods to install libcpuinfo0 on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libcpuinfo0 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libcpuinfo0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libcpuinfo0

Install libcpuinfo0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libcpuinfo0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libcpuinfo0

Install libcpuinfo0 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 libcpuinfo0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcpuinfo0

How To Uninstall libcpuinfo0 on Debian 11

To uninstall only the libcpuinfo0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libcpuinfo0

Uninstall libcpuinfo0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libcpuinfo0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcpuinfo0

Remove libcpuinfo0 Configurations and Data

To remove libcpuinfo0 configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libcpuinfo0

Remove libcpuinfo0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libcpuinfo0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcpuinfo0

Dependencies

libcpuinfo0 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcpuinfo0 package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.