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

Last updated: December 24,2024

1. Install "prctl" package

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


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall prctl on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: prctl
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 50
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Khalid Aziz
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.6-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4)
Filename: pool/universe/p/prctl/prctl_1.6-1_amd64.deb
Size: 7758
MD5sum: b65201698e909c6783760d178b22acc2
SHA1: c8105d320fcb57dcd9a8abe8e48194aa88ef2979
SHA256: 6fb75bdf347db9efe53c1cfd397cb7351015a3b48633a15d6d9689e01490c9fa
Description-en: Process control operations
prctl is a tool to query and modify process behavior. Supported process
behavior is handling of unaligned memory access, handling of floating
point software assist faults and machine check memory corruption kill
policy. Some of this functionality is supported by the kernel only on
a subset of architectures.
Description-md5: 69bdc3a6f93f79fac7ba97cb9669f970
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu