How To Install opal-utils on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install opal-utils on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is opal-utils
opal-utils is:
This package contains utility programs.
The ‘gard’ utility, can read, parse and clear hardware gard partitions on OpenPower platforms.
Package: opal-utils Architecture: amd64 Version: 6.5.2-1 Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Source: skiboot Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Frédéric Bonnard [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 199 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17) Filename: pool/universe/s/skiboot/opal-utils_6.5.2-1_amd64.deb Size: 51784 MD5sum: 61e1af4b5cfb8081a6b8f333de58da46 SHA1: d8647a4e2d218646a4c9c2491d6955b648e2d859 SHA256: d582cd97b7dc2269983462eeab82ccefdafc5bed776ec717767d965de46cb59a Homepage: https://github.com/open-power/skiboot/ Description-en: OPAL firmware utilities This package contains utility programs.
The ‘gard’ utility, can read, parse and clear hardware gard partitions on OpenPower platforms.
There are three methods to install opal-utils 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 opal-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install opal-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install opal-utils
Install opal-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install opal-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install opal-utils
Install opal-utils 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 opal-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install opal-utils
How To Uninstall opal-utils on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the opal-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove opal-utils
Uninstall opal-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall opal-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove opal-utils
Remove opal-utils Configurations and Data
To remove opal-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge opal-utils
Remove opal-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove opal-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge opal-utils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install opal-utils package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
