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

Last updated: May 04,2024

1. Install "prctl" package

This guide let you learn how to install prctl on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall prctl on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


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

Package: prctl
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.6-1build1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Khalid Aziz
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 29
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
Filename: pool/universe/p/prctl/prctl_1.6-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 8244
MD5sum: 40818330a0a48d73505834fa384d9cd9
SHA1: c21a7c919374158b4eb807f583b9d87081221df4
SHA256: 338f89cc157b3d65d9532191beed872558e52b271ce6b1d4011dfc7433897feb
SHA512: a346e7134e20012b732e1d81d210fa31be152c509979145d97d06f567c2bad0ff8bc89454bd450e9267fcfef4cbe96e26ef6f52c3e4aeb2d4556137d93ccd6a0
Description-en: Process control operations
prctl is a tool to query and modify process behavior. Supported process
behavior is handling of unaligned memory access, handling of floating
point software assist faults and machine check memory corruption kill
policy. Some of this functionality is supported by the kernel only on
a subset of architectures.
Description-md5: 69bdc3a6f93f79fac7ba97cb9669f970