How to Install and Uninstall libhugetlbfs-dev Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "libhugetlbfs-dev" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install libhugetlbfs-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libhugetlbfs-dev" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall libhugetlbfs-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 libhugetlbfs-dev package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: libhugetlbfs-dev
Priority: extra
Section: universe/libdevel
Installed-Size: 255
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Frank Lin PIAT , Vincent Danjean
Architecture: amd64
Source: libhugetlbfs
Version: 2.19-0ubuntu1
Depends: libhugetlbfs0 (= 2.19-0ubuntu1)
Filename: pool/universe/libh/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs-dev_2.19-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 46486
MD5sum: afffb25178d142f9175cfb7c6b71fe1b
SHA1: 2d6bdcda7bafbc63c6b677e8af8a661779a21260
SHA256: 681df3032f7d5277fba2c412b6033cf5d327bb3bd91e37d8f43a0a9cf9fb7571
Description-en: A library which provides easy access to huge pages of memory
libhugetlbfs is a library which provides easy access to huge pages of memory.
It is a wrapper for the hugetlbfs file system. Applications can use huge pages
to fulfill malloc() requests without being recompiled by using LD_PRELOAD.
Alternatively, applications can be linked against libhugetlbfs without source
modifications to load BSS or BSS, data, and text segments into large pages.
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This package provides the headers and development libraries
Description-md5: 491285048f6613acc71c61aee00b983b
Homepage: http://libhugetlbfs.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu