How To Install spectre-meltdown-checker on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectre-meltdown-checker on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is spectre-meltdown-checker
spectre-meltdown-checker is:
A simple shell script to tell if your Linux installation is vulnerable against the 3 “speculative execution” CVEs that were made public early 2018.
There are three methods to install spectre-meltdown-checker 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 spectre-meltdown-checker Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install spectre-meltdown-checker using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spectre-meltdown-checker
Install spectre-meltdown-checker Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spectre-meltdown-checker using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spectre-meltdown-checker
Install spectre-meltdown-checker 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 spectre-meltdown-checker using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spectre-meltdown-checker
How To Uninstall spectre-meltdown-checker on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the spectre-meltdown-checker package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spectre-meltdown-checker
Uninstall spectre-meltdown-checker And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spectre-meltdown-checker and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spectre-meltdown-checker
Remove spectre-meltdown-checker Configurations and Data
To remove spectre-meltdown-checker configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spectre-meltdown-checker
Remove spectre-meltdown-checker configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spectre-meltdown-checker configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spectre-meltdown-checker
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectre-meltdown-checker package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
