How To Install ledmon on Debian 10

Learn how to install ledmon on Debian 10 with this tutorial. ledmon is Enclosure LED Utilities

Introduction

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

What is ledmon

ledmon is:

ledmon and ledctl are userspace tools designed to control storage enclosure LEDs. The user must have root privileges to use these tools.

These tools use the SGPIO and SES-2 protocols to monitor and control LEDs. They been verified to work with Intel(R) storage controllers (i.e. the Intel(R) AHCI controller) and have not been tested with storage controllers of other vendors (especially SAS/SCSI controllers).

For backplane enclosures attached to ISCI controllers, support is limited to Intel(R) Intelligent Backplanes.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ledmon

Install ledmon Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ledmon

Install ledmon 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 ledmon using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ledmon

How To Uninstall ledmon on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove ledmon

Uninstall ledmon And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ledmon

Remove ledmon Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ledmon

Remove ledmon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ledmon

Dependencies

ledmon have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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