How to Install and Uninstall spectre-meltdown-checker Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: November 23,2024

1. Install "spectre-meltdown-checker" package

Please follow the instructions below to install spectre-meltdown-checker on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "spectre-meltdown-checker" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall spectre-meltdown-checker on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the spectre-meltdown-checker package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: spectre-meltdown-checker
Architecture: all
Version: 0.43-3
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/kernel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Sylvestre Ledru
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 224
Filename: pool/universe/s/spectre-meltdown-checker/spectre-meltdown-checker_0.43-3_all.deb
Size: 49844
MD5sum: 38ae9d215c9d4de6f5da9234b601dd7d
SHA1: 545d83d61caa849b8109de17a318e1ab07535050
SHA256: b83de3da5bd75d4c28d241e8efc925ca263e4581f757a3bce02facf5746ce2d0
SHA512: af4099b4fad7b137ccc6e4c6ce79b4f9729477d70a1705acc0512beabd7622f4ef38a0619db833bc78ed925d453d23689545d1d65310a09596c1ac85654a1082
Homepage: https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker
Description-en: Spectre & Meltdown vulnerability/mitigation checker
A simple shell script to tell if your Linux installation is vulnerable
against the 3 "speculative execution" CVEs that were made public early 2018.
Description-md5: f9821144f958810f6827bf8f26fb25e3