How To Install hotswap-gui on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hotswap-gui on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is hotswap-gui
hotswap-gui is:
Hotswap is a utility to register and deregister hotswappable IDE hardware. It is written to be used on Laptops with some sort of hardware bay to remove the module from the machine without rebooting it. eg. Dell Laptops.
Note that this utility is not required to insert or remove batteries or floppy disk drives; only for IDE devices.
This package includes the Motif front-end to the command line tool.
There are three methods to install hotswap-gui on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hotswap-gui Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hotswap-gui using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hotswap-gui
Install hotswap-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hotswap-gui using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hotswap-gui
Install hotswap-gui 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 hotswap-gui using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hotswap-gui
How To Uninstall hotswap-gui on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the hotswap-gui package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hotswap-gui
Uninstall hotswap-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hotswap-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hotswap-gui
Remove hotswap-gui Configurations and Data
To remove hotswap-gui configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hotswap-gui
Remove hotswap-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hotswap-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hotswap-gui
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hotswap-gui package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
