How To Install libhwloc-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhwloc-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libhwloc-doc
libhwloc-doc 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 documentation.
There are three methods to install libhwloc-doc 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 libhwloc-doc 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-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libhwloc-doc
Install libhwloc-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libhwloc-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libhwloc-doc
Install libhwloc-doc 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 libhwloc-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libhwloc-doc
How To Uninstall libhwloc-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libhwloc-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libhwloc-doc
Uninstall libhwloc-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libhwloc-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhwloc-doc
Remove libhwloc-doc Configurations and Data
To remove libhwloc-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libhwloc-doc
Remove libhwloc-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libhwloc-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhwloc-doc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhwloc-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
