How To Install libhugetlbfs-tests on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhugetlbfs-tests on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libhugetlbfs-tests
libhugetlbfs-tests is:
libhugetlbfs is a library which provides easy access to huge pages of memory. It is a wrapper for the hugetlbfs file system. Applications can use huge pages to fulfill malloc() requests without being recompiled by using LD_PRELOAD. Alternatively, applications can be linked against libhugetlbfs without source modifications to load BSS or BSS, data, and text segments into large pages.
This package provides the test-suite for libhugetlbfs, which is mostly useful for regression testing of libhugetlbfs.
There are three methods to install libhugetlbfs-tests on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libhugetlbfs-tests Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libhugetlbfs-tests using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libhugetlbfs-tests
Install libhugetlbfs-tests Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libhugetlbfs-tests using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libhugetlbfs-tests
Install libhugetlbfs-tests 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libhugetlbfs-tests using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libhugetlbfs-tests
How To Uninstall libhugetlbfs-tests on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libhugetlbfs-tests package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libhugetlbfs-tests
Uninstall libhugetlbfs-tests And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libhugetlbfs-tests and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhugetlbfs-tests
Remove libhugetlbfs-tests Configurations and Data
To remove libhugetlbfs-tests configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libhugetlbfs-tests
Remove libhugetlbfs-tests configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libhugetlbfs-tests configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhugetlbfs-tests
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhugetlbfs-tests package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
