How To Install swupdate-doc on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swupdate-doc
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is swupdate-doc
swupdate-doc is:
This package contains the documentation for swupdate.
swupdate is a Linux update agent with the goal to provide an efficient and safe way to update an embedded system.
- Install on embedded media (eMMC, SD, Raw NAND, NOR and SPI-NOR flashes)
- Allow delivery single image for multiple devices
- Multiple interfaces for getting software
- local storage
- integrated web server
- integrated REST client connector to hawkBit
- remote server download
- Software delivered as images, gzipped tarball, etc
- Allow custom handlers for installing FPGA/ microcontroller firmware.
- Power-Off safe
There are three methods to install swupdate-doc
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install swupdate-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install swupdate-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install swupdate-doc
Install swupdate-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install swupdate-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install swupdate-doc
Install swupdate-doc 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 swupdate-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install swupdate-doc
How To Uninstall swupdate-doc on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the swupdate-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove swupdate-doc
Uninstall swupdate-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall swupdate-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove swupdate-doc
Remove swupdate-doc Configurations and Data
To remove swupdate-doc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge swupdate-doc
Remove swupdate-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove swupdate-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swupdate-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swupdate-doc
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.