How To Install dmeventd on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dmeventd on Debian 10.
What is dmeventd
dmeventd is:
The Linux Kernel Device Mapper is the LVM (Linux Logical Volume Management) Team’s implementation of a minimalistic kernel-space driver that handles volume management, while keeping knowledge of the underlying device layout in user-space. This makes it useful for not only LVM, but software raid, and other drivers that create “virtual” block devices.
This package contains a daemon to monitor events of devmapper devices.
There are three methods to install dmeventd on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dmeventd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dmeventd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dmeventd
Install dmeventd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dmeventd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dmeventd
Install dmeventd 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 dmeventd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dmeventd
How To Uninstall dmeventd on Debian 10
To uninstall only the dmeventd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dmeventd
Uninstall dmeventd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dmeventd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dmeventd
Remove dmeventd Configurations and Data
To remove dmeventd configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dmeventd
Remove dmeventd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dmeventd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dmeventd
Dependencies
dmeventd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dmeventd package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
