How to Install and Uninstall spectre-meltdown-checker Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "spectre-meltdown-checker" package

Learn how to install spectre-meltdown-checker on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall spectre-meltdown-checker on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: spectre-meltdown-checker
Architecture: all
Version: 0.44-2
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: 235
Filename: pool/universe/s/spectre-meltdown-checker/spectre-meltdown-checker_0.44-2_all.deb
Size: 51896
MD5sum: 9c0d42ff38075cb975f880f315666506
SHA1: 4ec6fb89ee453b11b3135b201e5cf130406423c4
SHA256: a9eed653ec8b0a51c24f4220117a96c64f6e04e1994a7aac91f23483cdc75e32
SHA512: 12a7c9029596825a513100542d5fb8592b74acc299ecf612dd4a46d8394d66b682e8ae61b632f3ab081a446dfd4e8a5735932179c20f307da909de0f081ab2c7
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