How To Install xenomai-system-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xenomai-system-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is xenomai-system-tools
xenomai-system-tools is:
Xenomai is a real-time development framework cooperating with the Linux kernel in order to provide a pervasive, interface-agnostic, hard real-time support to user-space applications, seamlessly integrated into the GNU/Linux environment. Xenomai provides its own API and emulation layers (“skins”) to make migration from other RTOS easier. Examples are: pSOS+, VxWorks, VRTX, uiTRON, RTAI, POSIX.
This package contains the runtime programs, testsuite for the Xenomai realtime system and system configuration scripts.
There are three methods to install xenomai-system-tools on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install xenomai-system-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xenomai-system-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xenomai-system-tools
Install xenomai-system-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xenomai-system-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xenomai-system-tools
Install xenomai-system-tools 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 xenomai-system-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xenomai-system-tools
How To Uninstall xenomai-system-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the xenomai-system-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xenomai-system-tools
Uninstall xenomai-system-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xenomai-system-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xenomai-system-tools
Remove xenomai-system-tools Configurations and Data
To remove xenomai-system-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xenomai-system-tools
Remove xenomai-system-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xenomai-system-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xenomai-system-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xenomai-system-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
