How To Install hotswap on Debian 10

Learn how to install hotswap on Debian 10 with this tutorial. hotswap is (de)register hotswappable IDE hardware

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hotswap on Debian 10.

What is hotswap

hotswap is:

Hotswap is a utility to register and deregister hotswappable IDE hardware. It is written to be used on Laptops with some sort of hardware bay to remove the module from the machine without rebooting it. eg. Dell Laptops.

Note that this utility is not required to insert or remove batteries or floppy disk drives; only for IDE devices.

This is a metapackage that Depends on both the command line tool and the graphical front-end to allow seamless upgrades.

There are three methods to install hotswap 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 hotswap Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install hotswap using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install hotswap

Install hotswap Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install hotswap using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install hotswap

Install hotswap 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 hotswap using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hotswap

How To Uninstall hotswap on Debian 10

To uninstall only the hotswap package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove hotswap

Uninstall hotswap And Its Dependencies

To uninstall hotswap and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hotswap

Remove hotswap Configurations and Data

To remove hotswap configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge hotswap

Remove hotswap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove hotswap configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hotswap

Dependencies

hotswap have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hotswap package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.