How To Install amtterm on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install amtterm on Debian 9. amtterm is Serial-over-lan (sol) client for Intel AMT, console version

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install amtterm on Debian 9.

What is amtterm

amtterm is:

AMT (included in Intel vPro and Centrino Pro) provides out-of-band (OOB) management for Desktops and Laptops, using an agent integrated in the network adapter and in the motherboard.

Serial-over-lan provides a secure way to connect a remote computer, through a pseudo serial interface.

amtterm and gamt are two terminal tools to connect to that pseudo serial interface from a remote computer.

amttool is a script to gather information about and remotely control AMT managed computers.

Starting with AMT 9.0 Intel has removed support for the old SOAP protocol which is used by amttool. Only WS Management (added in AMT 3.0) is supported by recent machines. You can use wsmancli (see http://openwsman.sf.net) instead.

There are three methods to install amtterm on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install amtterm Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install amtterm using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install amtterm

Install amtterm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install amtterm using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install amtterm

Install amtterm Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install amtterm using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install amtterm

How To Uninstall amtterm on Debian 9

To uninstall only the amtterm package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove amtterm

Uninstall amtterm And Its Dependencies

To uninstall amtterm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove amtterm

Remove amtterm Configurations and Data

To remove amtterm configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge amtterm

Remove amtterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove amtterm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge amtterm

Dependencies

amtterm have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install amtterm package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.