How To Install libhwloc15 on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhwloc15 on Ubuntu.
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 Ubuntu. 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 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 libhwloc15 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libhwloc15
How To Uninstall libhwloc15 on Ubuntu
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 Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhwloc15
Remove libhwloc15 Configurations and Data
To remove libhwloc15 configuration and data from Ubuntu 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:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhwloc15 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.