How to Install and Uninstall libhugetlbfs-bin Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: September 20,2024

1. Install "libhugetlbfs-bin" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libhugetlbfs-bin on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libhugetlbfs-bin" package

Learn how to uninstall libhugetlbfs-bin on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libhugetlbfs-bin package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: libhugetlbfs-bin
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.23-4
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Source: libhugetlbfs
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Punit Agrawal
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 257
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7)
Suggests: libhugetlbfs
Breaks: libhugetlbfs0 (<< 2.21-2)
Replaces: libhugetlbfs0 (<< 2.21-2)
Filename: pool/universe/libh/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs-bin_2.23-4_amd64.deb
Size: 53956
MD5sum: 18a59af080c868a2a1612e9656f55a52
SHA1: b8e9990ac87dd619fa5f62c21078674fd2e4e069
SHA256: 4304ae8ba9bf611d8c4085af88ed1e1504a0a5065dd58a72d41a29fb8fdea166
SHA512: 12ddf6a0ee27b7a093dca3fb6ced59ea0a99c74d273e5d6c21bb01471ee4e640284d79788aa11207e77732d34363c8859a165245100d46048fc763734a75d37b
Homepage: https://github.com/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs
Description-en: Tools to ease use of hugetlbfs
libhugetlbfs is a library which provides easy access to huge pages of
memory. It is a wrapper for the hugetlbfs file system. Applications
can use huge pages to fulfill malloc() requests without being
recompiled by using LD_PRELOAD.
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The package provies the following userspace tools to help with huge page
usability, environment setup, and control:
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hugeadm: Configure the system huge page pools.
hugectl: Control policy for backing text, data and malloc() with hugepages.
hugeedit: Set default policy for backing text and data with hugepages.
pagesize: Print supported system page sizes.
Description-md5: d12bbd65734e63ceb8fb9609be55a07d