How To Install freeipmi-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-common on Kali Linux.

What is freeipmi-common

freeipmi-common 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 provides configuration used by the rest of FreeIPMI framework and generic documentation to orient the user.

There are three methods to install freeipmi-common on Kali Linux. 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-common 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-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install freeipmi-common

Install freeipmi-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install freeipmi-common

Install freeipmi-common Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install freeipmi-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install freeipmi-common

How To Uninstall freeipmi-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the freeipmi-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove freeipmi-common

Uninstall freeipmi-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall freeipmi-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove freeipmi-common

Remove freeipmi-common Configurations and Data

To remove freeipmi-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge freeipmi-common

Remove freeipmi-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freeipmi-common

Dependencies

freeipmi-common have the following dependencies:

References

• freeipmi-common website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.