How To Install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
freeipmi-bmc-watchdog is:
FreeIPMI is a collection of Intelligent Platform Management IPMI system software. It provides in-band and out-of-band software and a development library conforming to the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI v1.5 and v2.0) standards.
This package contains a watchdog daemon for hardware BMC watchdogs.
Package: freeipmi-bmc-watchdog Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.6.4-3ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: universe/admin Source: freeipmi Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 164 Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2~) Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libfreeipmi17 (>= 1.1.5), init-system-helpers (>= 1.51), freeipmi-tools, freeipmi-common (= 1.6.4-3ubuntu1) Filename: pool/universe/f/freeipmi/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog_1.6.4-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 44732 MD5sum: dd439900fbe1387a3893775f69499bc7 SHA1: 00fa4be75a7c863929a90b4252d4e8191617bf92 SHA256: bb6f2ff96ba58553b322634ce894c1a09455f63b96b4f811b75e8c05c3ddc9ff Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/ Description-en: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol - BMC watchdog FreeIPMI is a collection of Intelligent Platform Management IPMI system software. It provides in-band and out-of-band software and a development library conforming to the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI v1.5 and v2.0) standards.
This package contains a watchdog daemon for hardware BMC watchdogs.
There are three methods to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
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 freeipmi-bmc-watchdog Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
Install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
Install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog 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 freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
How To Uninstall freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
Uninstall freeipmi-bmc-watchdog And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
Remove freeipmi-bmc-watchdog Configurations and Data
To remove freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
Remove freeipmi-bmc-watchdog configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.