How to Install and Uninstall hugepages Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "hugepages" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install hugepages on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall hugepages on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: hugepages
Priority: extra
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 165
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Frank Lin PIAT , Vincent Danjean
Architecture: amd64
Source: libhugetlbfs
Version: 2.19-0ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libhugetlbfs0 (= 2.19-0ubuntu1)
Suggests: libhugetlbfs-tests
Filename: pool/universe/libh/libhugetlbfs/hugepages_2.19-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 49058
MD5sum: 60d35d878a2952d89ccc4a685c55e7b1
SHA1: 9efade2a4771b440215ca2a400d3b17588097264
SHA256: 27a01032a255bf359f45585efddba7161cf80b67151eaee8a4c06835f2823701
Description-en: A set of tools to configure huge pages of memory
This package contains a number of utilities that will help administrate the
use of huge pages on your system. hugeedit modifies binaries to set default
segment remapping behavior. hugectl sets environment variables for using huge
pages and then execs the target program. hugeadm gives easy access to huge page
pool size control. pagesize lists page sizes available on the machine.
Description-md5: c8e1f8022f3e8924a446a9ec0f76c0fc
Homepage: http://libhugetlbfs.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu