How To Install libhwloc15 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhwloc15 on Kali Linux.

What is libhwloc15

libhwloc15 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 shared libraries.

There are three methods to install libhwloc15 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 libhwloc15 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libhwloc15 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libhwloc15

Install libhwloc15 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libhwloc15 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libhwloc15

Install libhwloc15 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 libhwloc15 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libhwloc15

How To Uninstall libhwloc15 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libhwloc15 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libhwloc15

Uninstall libhwloc15 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libhwloc15 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhwloc15

Remove libhwloc15 Configurations and Data

To remove libhwloc15 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libhwloc15

Remove libhwloc15 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libhwloc15 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhwloc15

Dependencies

libhwloc15 have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libudev1

References

• libhwloc15 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhwloc15 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.