How To Install amtterm on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install amtterm on Debian 9.
What is amtterm
amtterm is:
AMT (included in Intel vPro and Centrino Pro) provides out-of-band (OOB) management for Desktops and Laptops, using an agent integrated in the network adapter and in the motherboard.
Serial-over-lan provides a secure way to connect a remote computer, through a pseudo serial interface.
amtterm and gamt are two terminal tools to connect to that pseudo serial interface from a remote computer.
amttool is a script to gather information about and remotely control AMT managed computers.
Starting with AMT 9.0 Intel has removed support for the old SOAP protocol which is used by amttool. Only WS Management (added in AMT 3.0) is supported by recent machines. You can use wsmancli (see http://openwsman.sf.net) instead.
There are three methods to install amtterm on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install amtterm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install amtterm using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install amtterm
Install amtterm Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install amtterm using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install amtterm
Install amtterm 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 amtterm using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install amtterm
How To Uninstall amtterm on Debian 9
To uninstall only the amtterm package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove amtterm
Uninstall amtterm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall amtterm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove amtterm
Remove amtterm Configurations and Data
To remove amtterm configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge amtterm
Remove amtterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove amtterm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge amtterm
Dependencies
amtterm have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install amtterm package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.