How To Install dpdk-doc on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install dpdk-doc on Ubuntu 20.04. dpdk-doc is Data Plane Development Kit (documentation) Data Plane Development Kit (documentation) Data Plane Development Kit (documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dpdk-doc on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is dpdk-doc

dpdk-doc is:

DPDK is a set of libraries for fast packet processing. Applications run in user-space and communicate directly with dedicated network interfaces.

This package contains the complete set of documentation and guides.

Package: dpdk-doc Architecture: all Version: 19.11.3-0ubuntu0.2 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/doc Source: dpdk Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian DPDK Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 60113 Depends: fonts-font-awesome, fonts-lato, fonts-roboto-slab, libjs-jquery, libjs-underscore, python3:any Filename: pool/universe/d/dpdk/dpdk-doc_19.11.3-0ubuntu0.2_all.deb Size: 8453936 MD5sum: c5ce44882f293fa3f6f52341ed8fe69f SHA1: c29e30551398a77ad1201e70436546ff44e36ba2 SHA256: cb086e8a729b2a98780baf0e1f173f660bd1f5b9a8a73cff1e3ddfe58ac696dc SHA512: b61fc2e492a6832f3ca1d26b124386201ebaf5c88d52ef0fd50cd2c6c8e985c9a644cc6c958f6b7107cdd10f55ea7ca4c7a445bcc5913f94cf1bd35c6e5c4eec Homepage: https://dpdk.org/doc/guides/index.html Description-en: Data Plane Development Kit (documentation) DPDK is a set of libraries for fast packet processing. Applications run in user-space and communicate directly with dedicated network interfaces.

This package contains the complete set of documentation and guides.

Package: dpdk-doc Architecture: all Version: 19.11.1-0ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/doc Source: dpdk Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian DPDK Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 60021 Depends: fonts-font-awesome, fonts-lato, fonts-roboto-slab, libjs-jquery, libjs-underscore, python3:any Filename: pool/universe/d/dpdk/dpdk-doc_19.11.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 8437632 MD5sum: 778d0cb51fa2e26fe82e90819f7ce09f SHA1: 1bead0b23c61dbd31e67e3687b92660781f4ade1 SHA256: e3deff869bdd04cbf34d3efd23ee369ccc59c43f37e4db9f7f6280f22cf62fea Homepage: https://dpdk.org/doc/guides/index.html Description-en: Data Plane Development Kit (documentation) DPDK is a set of libraries for fast packet processing. Applications run in user-space and communicate directly with dedicated network interfaces.

This package contains the complete set of documentation and guides.

There are three methods to install dpdk-doc on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install dpdk-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install dpdk-doc

Install dpdk-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install dpdk-doc

Install dpdk-doc 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install dpdk-doc

How To Uninstall dpdk-doc on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the dpdk-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove dpdk-doc

Uninstall dpdk-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall dpdk-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dpdk-doc

Remove dpdk-doc Configurations and Data

To remove dpdk-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge dpdk-doc

Remove dpdk-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dpdk-doc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dpdk-doc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.