How To Install libhwloc-plugins on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhwloc-plugins on Kali Linux.
What is libhwloc-plugins
libhwloc-plugins is:
libhwloc 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 plugins to add more discovery support. This includes
- PCI support
- libxml support
There are three methods to install libhwloc-plugins 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-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libhwloc-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libhwloc-pluginsInstall libhwloc-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libhwloc-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libhwloc-pluginsInstall libhwloc-plugins 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-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libhwloc-pluginsHow To Uninstall libhwloc-plugins on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libhwloc-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libhwloc-pluginsUninstall libhwloc-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libhwloc-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhwloc-pluginsRemove libhwloc-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove libhwloc-plugins configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libhwloc-pluginsRemove libhwloc-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libhwloc-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhwloc-pluginsDependencies
libhwloc-plugins have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhwloc-plugins package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.