How to Install and Uninstall likwid Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: December 27,2024

1. Install "likwid" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install likwid on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                likwid
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "likwid" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall likwid on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                likwid
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the likwid package on Kali Linux

Package: likwid
Version: 5.2.2+dfsg1-2
Installed-Size: 19039
Maintainer: Christoph Martin
Architecture: amd64
Depends: lua5.3, perl:any, python3:any, libc6 (>= 2.34), libhwloc15 (>= 2.9.2), liblua5.3-0
Suggests: feedgnuplot
Size: 756596
SHA256: 67b8df8d2a786037bd800f3b52e8fd952b65609af764649346e4e1e4fa7c8296
SHA1: 360650f8496859582b1ff678316c992d2f51f6a3
MD5sum: c19b581763e6c802b85c6601becbd332
Description: toolsuite for performance oriented programmers
Likwid is a simple to install and use toolsuite of command line applications
for performance oriented programmers. It works for Intel and AMD processors
on the Linux operating system.
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It consists of:
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likwid-topology - print thread and cache topology
likwid-features - view and toggle feature reagister on Intel processors
likwid-perfctr - configure and read out hardware performance counters
on Intel and AMD processors
likwid-powermeter - read out RAPL Energy information and get info about
Turbo Mode steps
likwid-setFrequencies - read out RAPL Energy information and get info about
Turbo Mode steps
likwid-memsweeper - cleans up filled NUMA memory domains and evicts dirty
cacheline from cache hierarchy
likwid-pin - pin your threaded application (pthread, Intel and gcc
OpenMP to dedicated processors
likwid-bench - Micro benchmarking platform
likwid-gencfg - Dumps topology information to a file
likwid-mpirun - Wrapper to start MPI and Hybrid MPI/OpenMP
applications (Supports Intel MPI and OpenMPI)
likwid-scope - Frontend to the timeline mode of likwid-perfctr, plots
live graphs of performance metrics
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/rrze-likwid/likwid
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/l/likwid/likwid_5.2.2+dfsg1-2_amd64.deb