How to Install and Uninstall cpuinfo Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 05,2024

1. Install "cpuinfo" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install cpuinfo on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall cpuinfo on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                cpuinfo
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the cpuinfo package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: cpuinfo
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.0~git20200612.63b2545-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/science
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Deep Learning Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 75
Depends: libcpuinfo0 (= 0.0~git20200612.63b2545-2), libc6 (>= 2.4)
Filename: pool/universe/c/cpuinfo/cpuinfo_0.0~git20200612.63b2545-2_amd64.deb
Size: 11716
MD5sum: 3c9f38d943cf0a4b43c9afe7aa092e1c
SHA1: 7297f5aa31bff8ead9c3277fea97b45581fd89a2
SHA256: 5bd079fe01053a14835c8b8cbf4377eab7e0a239b8af420339f679c256f470c6
SHA512: 573ec4e131bb2fa621cde2572bba5859f36202f5440ab8ca8542a1f1eb6830f3c6367b1997dc6ec829dc0f642ac85f045089347ec88ae83f9d8a16981ddf8ddf
Homepage: https://github.com/pytorch/cpuinfo
Description-en: CPU INFOrmation library (binary utilities)
cpuinfo is a library to detect essential for performance optimization
information about host CPU.
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Features
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- **Cross-platform** availability:
- Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS operating systems
- x86, x86-64, ARM, and ARM64 architectures
- Modern **C/C++ interface**
- Thread-safe
- No memory allocation after initialization
- No exceptions thrown
- Detection of **supported instruction sets**, up to AVX512 (x86) and
ARMv8.3 extensions
- Detection of SoC and core information:
- **Processor (SoC) name**
- Integrated **GPU name** (Android/iOS only)
- Vendor, **microarchitecture**, and ID (**MIDR** on ARM, **CPUID**
leaf 1 EAX value on x86) for each CPU core
- Detection of **cache information**:
- Cache type (instruction/data/unified), size and line size
- Cache associativity
- Cores and logical processors (hyper-threads) sharing the cache
- Detection of **topology information** (relative between logical
processors, cores, and processor packages)
- Well-tested **production-quality** code:
- 60+ mock tests based on data from real devices
- Includes work-arounds for common bugs in hardware and OS kernels
- Supports systems with heterogenous cores, such as **big.LITTLE**
and Max.Med.Min
- Permissive **open-source** license (Simplified BSD)
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This package ships with several binary utilities.
Description-md5: ab666464e290c05f055e53ee0e828d2c