How to Install and Uninstall cgroup-tools Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "cgroup-tools" package

This is a short guide on how to install cgroup-tools on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Learn how to uninstall cgroup-tools on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                cgroup-tools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the cgroup-tools package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: cgroup-tools
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 264
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Christian Kastner
Architecture: amd64
Source: libcgroup
Version: 0.41-7ubuntu1
Replaces: cgroup-bin (<< 0.40~rc1-3~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libcgroup1 (>= 0.40~rc1), cgroup-lite (>= 1.3)
Breaks: cgroup-bin (<< 0.40~rc1-3~)
Filename: pool/universe/libc/libcgroup/cgroup-tools_0.41-7ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 64420
MD5sum: 3ecb31876e1c681e449d2582ab9b17a5
SHA1: 11d8bb0a790e5b77b238af64e7932a261c445b15
SHA256: d1e5fae7fbee6acafe8e1da1e5a4ff0443ca9adc6bae62b9e940f9ffb15e3b61
Description-en: control and monitor control groups (tools)
Control Groups (cgroups) provide a mechanism for aggregating/partitioning sets
of tasks, and all their future children, into hierarchical groups with
specialized behaviour.
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libcgroup allows one to manipulate, control, administrate and monitor cgroups
and the associated controllers.
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This package contains the command-line tools.
Description-md5: 31bbde716d49909064e8fe618de2abd5
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://libcg.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu