How To Install probert-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install probert-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is probert-common
probert-common is:
This package provides a tool for probing host hardware information and emitting a JSON report.
This package provides the common code for probing.
Package: probert-common Architecture: all Version: 0.0.18 Priority: optional Section: admin Source: probert Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Ryan Harper [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 118 Depends: python3-jsonschema, python3-pyudev, python3:any Breaks: probert (« 0.0.16) Replaces: probert (« 0.0.16) Filename: pool/main/p/probert/probert-common_0.0.18_all.deb Size: 17052 MD5sum: f7973f8fd55c17f2838c4ff45708693d SHA1: 2c4c6d551509cdc82353177bf949a8261d26dfce SHA256: e962ec4005ba93b13fec7f87057d3becc7478fcd2ef0c74e2a5477aa676c6971 Homepage: https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/probert Description-en: Hardware probing tool - common This package provides a tool for probing host hardware information and emitting a JSON report.
This package provides the common code for probing.
There are three methods to install probert-common 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 probert-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install probert-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install probert-common
Install probert-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install probert-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install probert-common
Install probert-common 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 probert-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install probert-common
How To Uninstall probert-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the probert-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove probert-common
Uninstall probert-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall probert-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove probert-common
Remove probert-common Configurations and Data
To remove probert-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge probert-common
Remove probert-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove probert-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge probert-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install probert-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
