How To Install ulatency on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ulatency on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ulatency
ulatency is:
The userspace latency daemon controls how the Linux kernel spends its resources on the running processes. It uses dynamic cgroups to give the kernel hints on how to optimize process scheduling.
This package provides a command-line/Qt4 client which can be used to tune and monitor ulatencyd.
There are three methods to install ulatency 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 ulatency Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ulatency using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ulatency
Install ulatency Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ulatency using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ulatency
Install ulatency 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 ulatency using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ulatency
How To Uninstall ulatency on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ulatency package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ulatency
Uninstall ulatency And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ulatency and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ulatency
Remove ulatency Configurations and Data
To remove ulatency configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ulatency
Remove ulatency configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ulatency configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ulatency
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ulatency package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
