How To Install sysfsutils on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sysfsutils
on Debian 9.
What is sysfsutils
sysfsutils is:
Sysfs is a virtual file system in Linux kernel 2.5+ that provides a tree of system devices. This package provides the program ‘systool’ to query it: it can list devices by bus, class, and topology.
In addition this package ships a configuration file /etc/sysfs.conf which allows one to conveniently set sysfs attributes at system bootup (in the init script /etc/init.d/sysfsutils).
If you need sysfs queries in own programs, then you may want to use the libsysfs library directly (package libsysfs-dev).
There are three methods to install sysfsutils
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install sysfsutils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sysfsutils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sysfsutils
Install sysfsutils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sysfsutils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sysfsutils
Install sysfsutils 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install sysfsutils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sysfsutils
How To Uninstall sysfsutils on Debian 9
To uninstall only the sysfsutils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sysfsutils
Uninstall sysfsutils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sysfsutils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sysfsutils
Remove sysfsutils Configurations and Data
To remove sysfsutils
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sysfsutils
Remove sysfsutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sysfsutils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sysfsutils
Dependencies
sysfsutils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sysfsutils
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.