How To Install libhwloc-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhwloc-common on Kali Linux.

What is libhwloc-common

libhwloc-common 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.

libhwloc 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.

libhwloc supports old kernels not having sysfs topology information, with knowledge of cpusets, offline cpus, and Kerrighed support

This package contains the XML DTD of the lstopo XML output.

There are three methods to install libhwloc-common 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 libhwloc-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libhwloc-common

Install libhwloc-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libhwloc-common

Install libhwloc-common 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 libhwloc-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libhwloc-common

How To Uninstall libhwloc-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libhwloc-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libhwloc-common

Uninstall libhwloc-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libhwloc-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhwloc-common

Remove libhwloc-common Configurations and Data

To remove libhwloc-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libhwloc-common

Remove libhwloc-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhwloc-common

Dependencies

libhwloc-common have the following dependencies:

References

• libhwloc-common website

Summary

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