How To Install libhwloc-dev on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhwloc-dev on Kali Linux.
What is libhwloc-dev
libhwloc-dev 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 static libraries and development headers.
There are three methods to install libhwloc-dev 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-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libhwloc-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libhwloc-devInstall libhwloc-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libhwloc-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libhwloc-devInstall libhwloc-dev 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libhwloc-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libhwloc-devHow To Uninstall libhwloc-dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libhwloc-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libhwloc-devUninstall libhwloc-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libhwloc-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhwloc-devRemove libhwloc-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libhwloc-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libhwloc-devRemove libhwloc-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libhwloc-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhwloc-devDependencies
libhwloc-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhwloc-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.