How To Install sosreport on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sosreport on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is sosreport
sosreport is:
Sos is a set of tools that gathers information about system hardware and configuration. The information can then be used for diagnostic purposes and debugging. Sos is commonly used to help support technicians and developers. Task: server, cloud-image
Package: sosreport Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.9-1ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Louis Bouchard [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1756 Depends: python3-six, python3:any Filename: pool/main/s/sosreport/sosreport_3.9-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 165992 MD5sum: 7c21bb8359ce83692e5f51b3e1e10b42 SHA1: 1c87a2b22ddf6e93fb4a10e67027794affbc2ab7 SHA256: f9d052152b440c092d3d7853562f50c6eaa9ad30276758d66e21eb8f0195c876 Homepage: https://github.com/sosreport/sos Description-en: Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system Sos is a set of tools that gathers information about system hardware and configuration. The information can then be used for diagnostic purposes and debugging. Sos is commonly used to help support technicians and developers. Task: server, cloud-image
There are three methods to install sosreport 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 sosreport Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sosreport using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sosreport
Install sosreport Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sosreport using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sosreport
Install sosreport 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 sosreport using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sosreport
How To Uninstall sosreport on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the sosreport package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sosreport
Uninstall sosreport And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sosreport and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sosreport
Remove sosreport Configurations and Data
To remove sosreport configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sosreport
Remove sosreport configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sosreport configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sosreport
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sosreport package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
