How to Install hugepages software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install hugepages software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

hugepages software package provides A set of tools to configure huge pages of memory, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install hugepages 

hugepages is installed in your system.

Make ensure the hugepages package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep hugepages *

You will get with hugepages package name, version, architecture and description in a table

hugepages package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
Section Administration Utilities
Package hugepages
Version 2.17-0ubuntu2
Description A set of tools to configure huge pages of memory
Sub Section Admin


See Also, How to uninstall or remove hugepages software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?