How To Install linux-crashdump on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install linux-crashdump on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is linux-crashdump
linux-crashdump is:
This package installs all the needed infrastructure to get crashdumps from your running system. If you are experiencing kernel crashes that cannot be debugged normally (because the problem is infrequent or panic’s the system in such a way as to make information gathering impossible), then you can install this package to automatically enable capture of the vmcore on crashes.
Package: linux-crashdump Architecture: amd64 Version: 5.4.0.26.32 Priority: optional Section: devel Source: linux-meta Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Kernel Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 17 Depends: kdump-tools, grub-pc (>= 1.96+20090611-1ubuntu2) | grub-efi-ia32 | grub-efi-amd64 | grub (>= 0.97-29ubuntu24) Recommends: apport Suggests: crash Filename: pool/main/l/linux-meta/linux-crashdump_5.4.0.26.32_amd64.deb Size: 2952 MD5sum: 6b3465913a7fedab4ce43ee37c65423b SHA1: 1ecc64466e1652acc8dcfb04c7fa06c28cf45c39 SHA256: b5076e98339f5166af843b498c2011a62f1d2bdc948e8f1f5ed4ba4dbb3d5cfe Description-en: Linux kernel crashdump setup for the latest generic kernel This package installs all the needed infrastructure to get crashdumps from your running system. If you are experiencing kernel crashes that cannot be debugged normally (because the problem is infrequent or panic’s the system in such a way as to make information gathering impossible), then you can install this package to automatically enable capture of the vmcore on crashes.
There are three methods to install linux-crashdump 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 linux-crashdump Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install linux-crashdump using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install linux-crashdump
Install linux-crashdump Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install linux-crashdump using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install linux-crashdump
Install linux-crashdump 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 linux-crashdump using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install linux-crashdump
How To Uninstall linux-crashdump on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the linux-crashdump package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove linux-crashdump
Uninstall linux-crashdump And Its Dependencies
To uninstall linux-crashdump and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove linux-crashdump
Remove linux-crashdump Configurations and Data
To remove linux-crashdump configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge linux-crashdump
Remove linux-crashdump configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove linux-crashdump configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge linux-crashdump
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install linux-crashdump package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.