How To Install hotswap on Debian 10
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
.