How To Install discover on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install discover on Debian 10.
What is discover
discover is:
Discover is a hardware identification system based on the libdiscover2 library. Discover provides a flexible interface that programs can use to report a wide range of information about the hardware that is installed on a Linux system. In addition to reporting information, Discover includes support for doing hardware detection at boot time.
There are three methods to install discover 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 discover Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install discover using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install discover
Install discover Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install discover using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install discover
Install discover 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 discover using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install discover
How To Uninstall discover on Debian 10
To uninstall only the discover package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove discover
Uninstall discover And Its Dependencies
To uninstall discover and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove discover
Remove discover Configurations and Data
To remove discover configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge discover
Remove discover configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove discover configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge discover
Dependencies
discover have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install discover package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.