How To Install inteltool on Debian 10

Learn how to install inteltool on Debian 10 with this tutorial. inteltool is Dump Intel CPU / chipset configuration parameters

Introduction

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

What is inteltool

inteltool is:

inteltool is a tool for dumping the configuration space of Intel CPUs, northbridges and southbridges.

This includes register contents of e.g. GPIO, RCBA, PMBASE, MCHBAR, EPBAR, DMIBAR, PCIEXBAR, and more.

It has been developed for the coreboot project (see http://coreboot.org for details on coreboot), but may also be useful for other purposes.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install inteltool

Install inteltool Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install inteltool

Install inteltool 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 inteltool using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install inteltool

How To Uninstall inteltool on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove inteltool

Uninstall inteltool And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove inteltool

Remove inteltool Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge inteltool

Remove inteltool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge inteltool

Dependencies

inteltool have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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