How To Install pciutils on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pciutils on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is pciutils
pciutils is:
This package contains various utilities for inspecting and setting of devices connected to the PCI bus. Task: standard
Package: pciutils Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:3.6.4-1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: standard Section: admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Guillem Jover [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 191 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libkmod2 (>= 5~), libpci3 (= 1:3.6.4-1) Suggests: bzip2, wget | curl | lynx-cur Filename: pool/main/p/pciutils/pciutils_3.6.4-1_amd64.deb Size: 56468 MD5sum: 0bb0f156c7d741ac0c88d1395014397d SHA1: 9805662d893afcdc49ac6811dc41b907ff71cfab SHA256: 9de5d678b1c5add600b9fcafccc3c99fe51200973b54d14fc6f797c02f44ec86 Homepage: https://mj.ucw.cz/sw/pciutils/ Description-en: PCI utilities This package contains various utilities for inspecting and setting of devices connected to the PCI bus. Task: standard
There are three methods to install pciutils 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 pciutils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pciutils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pciutils
Install pciutils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pciutils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pciutils
Install pciutils 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 pciutils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pciutils
How To Uninstall pciutils on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the pciutils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pciutils
Uninstall pciutils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pciutils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pciutils
Remove pciutils Configurations and Data
To remove pciutils configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pciutils
Remove pciutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pciutils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pciutils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pciutils package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
