How To Install devicetype-detect on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install devicetype-detect
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is devicetype-detect
devicetype-detect is:
devicetype-detect attempts to determine device class of the running system based on the display size, display resolution, and presence or absence of a battery.
devicename-detect attempts to determine the name of the device, to the best knowledge of the device itself, for use as a sensible default model name.
There are three methods to install devicetype-detect
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install devicetype-detect Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install devicetype-detect
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install devicetype-detect
Install devicetype-detect Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install devicetype-detect
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install devicetype-detect
Install devicetype-detect 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install devicetype-detect
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install devicetype-detect
How To Uninstall devicetype-detect on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the devicetype-detect
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove devicetype-detect
Uninstall devicetype-detect And Its Dependencies
To uninstall devicetype-detect
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove devicetype-detect
Remove devicetype-detect Configurations and Data
To remove devicetype-detect
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge devicetype-detect
Remove devicetype-detect configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove devicetype-detect
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge devicetype-detect
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install devicetype-detect
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.