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

Last updated: May 09,2024

1. Install "likwid" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install likwid on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

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


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

Package: likwid
Priority: optional
Section: universe/misc
Installed-Size: 8178
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Christoph Martin
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.1.3+dfsg1-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), perl
Pre-Depends: multiarch-support
Filename: pool/universe/l/likwid/likwid_3.1.3+dfsg1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 709768
MD5sum: ffa54ae37a0cad14457873856c775148
SHA1: 2bf1ac4f52427b7e48ca7b8d91450ddf63c36382
SHA256: 380c4ea9b74d73b995b66899010ed35adab645054e6a8428daa6f36e4af2a12c
Description-en: toolsuite for performance oriented programmers
Likwid is a simple to install and use toolsuite of command line applications
for performance oriented programmers. It works for Intel and AMD processors
on the Linux operating system.
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It consists of:
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likwid-topology - print thread and cache topology
likwid-features - view and toggle feature reagister on Intel processors
likwid-perfctr - configure and read out hardware performance counters
on Intel and AMD processors
likwid-powermeter - read out RAPL Energy information and get info about
Turbo Mode steps
likwid-setFrequencies - read out RAPL Energy information and get info about
Turbo Mode steps
likwid-memsweeper - cleans up filled NUMA memory domains and evicts dirty
cacheline from cache hierarchy
likwid-pin - pin your threaded application (pthread, Intel and gcc
OpenMP to dedicated processors
likwid-bench - Micro benchmarking platform
likwid-gencfg - Dumps topology information to a file
likwid-mpirun - Wrapper to start MPI and Hybrid MPI/OpenMP
applications (Supports Intel MPI and OpenMPI)
likwid-scope - Frontend to the timeline mode of likwid-perfctr, plots
live graphs of performance metrics
Description-md5: 62ed7b80aa830588cf7f31fba947d042
Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/likwid/wiki/Introduction
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu