How To Install kdump-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kdump-tools on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is kdump-tools
kdump-tools is:
kdump-tools provides an init script and a configuration script for automating the use of kdump. It uses the makedumpfile utility to reduce the size of the /proc/vmcore file based on user preferences.
After installing, please see /usr/share/doc/kdump-tools/README.Debian for information on enabling and configuring kdump.
Package: kdump-tools Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:1.6.7-1ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: devel Source: makedumpfile Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Louis Bouchard [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 112 Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, kexec-tools (>= 1:2.0.10-2), makedumpfile, debconf, bsdmainutils, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), file, ucf, linux-base Recommends: initramfs-tools-core Filename: pool/main/m/makedumpfile/kdump-tools_1.6.7-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 23572 MD5sum: 5d644e0049fd35d8d1b549ea791ad51e SHA1: 124e3d67308e2a921076fa01c59b7d2c0b190bd3 SHA256: 9d158e4da174ea6451c45f5768e1a9bbc47f8b2a96bc15a7cd979e7073b87284 Description-en: scripts and tools for automating kdump (Linux crash dumps) kdump-tools provides an init script and a configuration script for automating the use of kdump. It uses the makedumpfile utility to reduce the size of the /proc/vmcore file based on user preferences.
After installing, please see /usr/share/doc/kdump-tools/README.Debian for information on enabling and configuring kdump.
There are three methods to install kdump-tools 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 kdump-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kdump-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kdump-tools
Install kdump-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kdump-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kdump-tools
Install kdump-tools 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 kdump-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kdump-tools
How To Uninstall kdump-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the kdump-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kdump-tools
Uninstall kdump-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kdump-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kdump-tools
Remove kdump-tools Configurations and Data
To remove kdump-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kdump-tools
Remove kdump-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kdump-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kdump-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kdump-tools package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
