How To Install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on Debian 10.
What is freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
freeipmi-bmc-watchdog is:
FreeIPMI is a collection of Intelligent Platform Management IPMI system software. It provides in-band and out-of-band software and a development library conforming to the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI v1.5 and v2.0) standards.
This package contains a watchdog daemon for hardware BMC watchdogs.
There are three methods to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog 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 freeipmi-bmc-watchdog Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
Install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
Install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog 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 freeipmi-bmc-watchdog using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
How To Uninstall freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on Debian 10
To uninstall only the freeipmi-bmc-watchdog package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
Uninstall freeipmi-bmc-watchdog And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freeipmi-bmc-watchdog and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
Remove freeipmi-bmc-watchdog Configurations and Data
To remove freeipmi-bmc-watchdog configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
Remove freeipmi-bmc-watchdog configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freeipmi-bmc-watchdog configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
Dependencies
freeipmi-bmc-watchdog have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
