How To Install iscsiuio on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iscsiuio on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is iscsiuio
iscsiuio is:
Open-iSCSI is a high-performance, transport independent, multi-platform implementation of the RFC3720 Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI).
This package contains the userspace offloading daemon, for use with QLogic (formerly Broadcom) NetXtreme II hardware, as supported by the ‘bnx2’ and ‘bnx2x’ drivers, in conjunction with the ‘bnx2i’ driver.
The following network controllers are supported: bnx2: BCM5706, BCM5708, BCM5709 devices bnx2x: BCM57710, BCM57711, BCM57711E, BCM57712, BCM57712E, BCM57800, BCM57810, BCM57840
This package is required to offload iSCSI onto these devices.
Package: iscsiuio Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.0.874-7.1ubuntu6 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Source: open-iscsi Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian iSCSI Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 254 Depends: udev, libc6 (>= 2.22) Enhances: open-iscsi Filename: pool/universe/o/open-iscsi/iscsiuio_2.0.874-7.1ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 99312 MD5sum: 661211174569ffc31dedda03039aafc1 SHA1: f274f0c703c7251f53314eb91c3f7db1ba292dd6 SHA256: 02186d5ff8ddc6d08d533326d2fc7fc06e749b6aadb457f935d765e1f388a5c1 Homepage: http://www.open-iscsi.com/ Description-en: iSCSI offloading daemon for QLogic devices Open-iSCSI is a high-performance, transport independent, multi-platform implementation of the RFC3720 Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI).
This package contains the userspace offloading daemon, for use with QLogic (formerly Broadcom) NetXtreme II hardware, as supported by the ‘bnx2’ and ‘bnx2x’ drivers, in conjunction with the ‘bnx2i’ driver.
The following network controllers are supported: bnx2: BCM5706, BCM5708, BCM5709 devices bnx2x: BCM57710, BCM57711, BCM57711E, BCM57712, BCM57712E, BCM57800, BCM57810, BCM57840
This package is required to offload iSCSI onto these devices.
There are three methods to install iscsiuio 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 iscsiuio Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install iscsiuio using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install iscsiuio
Install iscsiuio Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install iscsiuio using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install iscsiuio
Install iscsiuio 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 iscsiuio using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install iscsiuio
How To Uninstall iscsiuio on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the iscsiuio package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove iscsiuio
Uninstall iscsiuio And Its Dependencies
To uninstall iscsiuio and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove iscsiuio
Remove iscsiuio Configurations and Data
To remove iscsiuio configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge iscsiuio
Remove iscsiuio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove iscsiuio configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iscsiuio
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iscsiuio package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
