How To Install freeipmi-ipmidetect on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-ipmidetect on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is freeipmi-ipmidetect
freeipmi-ipmidetect 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 tool and a daemon for detecting IPMI nodes.
Package: freeipmi-ipmidetect 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: 170 Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2~) Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libfreeipmi17 (>= 1.1.5), libipmidetect0 (>= 1.1.5), init-system-helpers (>= 1.51), freeipmi-common (= 1.6.4-3ubuntu1) Filename: pool/universe/f/freeipmi/freeipmi-ipmidetect_1.6.4-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 42396 MD5sum: ebf763015b7992abf41dff3d8937bad7 SHA1: ce97dfc6b50e7c9a10647b68d7cc9586291e8abb SHA256: f3d4262fc1c9241f9b204fd0c181571a28788baca18d97de72faa28aaf14e153 Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/ Description-en: GNU IPMI - IPMI node detection tool 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 tool and a daemon for detecting IPMI nodes.
There are three methods to install freeipmi-ipmidetect 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-ipmidetect 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-ipmidetect using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install freeipmi-ipmidetect
Install freeipmi-ipmidetect Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install freeipmi-ipmidetect using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install freeipmi-ipmidetect
Install freeipmi-ipmidetect 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-ipmidetect using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install freeipmi-ipmidetect
How To Uninstall freeipmi-ipmidetect on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the freeipmi-ipmidetect package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove freeipmi-ipmidetect
Uninstall freeipmi-ipmidetect And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freeipmi-ipmidetect and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove freeipmi-ipmidetect
Remove freeipmi-ipmidetect Configurations and Data
To remove freeipmi-ipmidetect configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge freeipmi-ipmidetect
Remove freeipmi-ipmidetect configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freeipmi-ipmidetect configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freeipmi-ipmidetect
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-ipmidetect package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
