How To Install freeipmi-ipmidetect on Debian 10

Learn how to install freeipmi-ipmidetect on Debian 10 with this tutorial. freeipmi-ipmidetect is GNU IPMI - IPMI node detection tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-ipmidetect on Debian 10.

What is freeipmi-ipmidetect

freeipmi-ipmidetect 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 tool and a daemon for detecting IPMI nodes.

There are three methods to install freeipmi-ipmidetect 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-ipmidetect 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-ipmidetect using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install freeipmi-ipmidetect

Install freeipmi-ipmidetect Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install freeipmi-ipmidetect

Install freeipmi-ipmidetect 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-ipmidetect using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install freeipmi-ipmidetect

How To Uninstall freeipmi-ipmidetect on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove freeipmi-ipmidetect

Uninstall freeipmi-ipmidetect And Its Dependencies

To uninstall freeipmi-ipmidetect and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove freeipmi-ipmidetect

Remove freeipmi-ipmidetect Configurations and Data

To remove freeipmi-ipmidetect configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge freeipmi-ipmidetect

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

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

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

Dependencies

freeipmi-ipmidetect have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-ipmidetect package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.