How To Install freeipmi-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is freeipmi-common
freeipmi-common 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 provides configuration used by the rest of FreeIPMI framework and generic documentation to orient the user.
Package: freeipmi-common Architecture: all Version: 1.6.4-3ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: 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: 362 Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2~) Suggests: freeipmi-tools Filename: pool/main/f/freeipmi/freeipmi-common_1.6.4-3ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 178832 MD5sum: 41d8c8463fbff71d734101c6cfddf1ee SHA1: 1861abd86fc4bbf86c1ec69abc91e5cce4c023d8 SHA256: bafb32e26afc3434dd3e033333019455a0a15dffe9c0f01b955dfc45c35db19f Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/ Description-en: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol - common files 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 provides configuration used by the rest of FreeIPMI framework and generic documentation to orient the user.
There are three methods to install freeipmi-common 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-common 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-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install freeipmi-common
Install freeipmi-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install freeipmi-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install freeipmi-common
Install freeipmi-common 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-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install freeipmi-common
How To Uninstall freeipmi-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the freeipmi-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove freeipmi-common
Uninstall freeipmi-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freeipmi-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove freeipmi-common
Remove freeipmi-common Configurations and Data
To remove freeipmi-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge freeipmi-common
Remove freeipmi-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freeipmi-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freeipmi-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
