How to Install and Uninstall msr-tools Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: April 28,2024

1. Install "msr-tools" package

This tutorial shows how to install msr-tools on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                msr-tools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "msr-tools" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall msr-tools on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


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

Package: msr-tools
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.3-3build1
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Andres Salomon
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 45
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Filename: pool/main/m/msr-tools/msr-tools_1.3-3build1_amd64.deb
Size: 10210
MD5sum: a30425eb8b56d683aed4b43c22297d4e
SHA1: 86b5411879fe518c4e68984079420f022b60e105
SHA256: 5d4a754a95542460d4803578ab9d206cac3c1606ccfb90c9b1120bcf8fbd7490
SHA512: ad10193736cc3249478cb709c3f41c7758254b8f8bb7a2aa936e5d35b0bccc7c11c7a852430e9726cf079508b6e9043322d8aea0141dd1e018bc2bcf8b211349
Homepage: https://github.com/01org/msr-tools
Description-en: Utilities for modifying MSRs from userspace
MSRs are Machine Specific Registers that are used to set values for
hardware to use, or to pass values between the BIOS and kernel. This
package provides utilies to both read and write MSRs. Reading and
writing MSRs might be useful when debugging kernel drivers, for example.
Description-md5: 95866ee428947792b0bd008175c572ad
Task: ubuntu-server-raspi, ubuntu-desktop-raspi, ubuntu-budgie-desktop-raspi