How To Install freeipmi-ipmiseld on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-ipmiseld
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is freeipmi-ipmiseld
freeipmi-ipmiseld 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 ipmiseld which takes the system event log from the BMC and imports it to syslog
Package: freeipmi-ipmiseld Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.6.4-3ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: universe/admin Source: freeipmi Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 239 Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2~) Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libfreeipmi17 (>= 1.4.4), freeipmi-common (= 1.6.4-3ubuntu1), sysvinit-utils (>= 2.88dsf-50~) Filename: pool/universe/f/freeipmi/freeipmi-ipmiseld_1.6.4-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 81228 MD5sum: 534e62314016e843fa74f21a04bcbce6 SHA1: 7662f30017a51a8a468a42f96cdcf4b921cecb8a SHA256: b7cfc6019af1e3f6cd5f7cc1f91890062b120854ee9b8e42fb44c5dabfe6fefd Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/ Description-en: GNU IPMI - IPMI node detection tool 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 ipmiseld which takes the system event log from the BMC and imports it to syslog
There are three methods to install freeipmi-ipmiseld
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install freeipmi-ipmiseld 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-ipmiseld
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install freeipmi-ipmiseld
Install freeipmi-ipmiseld Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install freeipmi-ipmiseld
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install freeipmi-ipmiseld
Install freeipmi-ipmiseld 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 freeipmi-ipmiseld
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install freeipmi-ipmiseld
How To Uninstall freeipmi-ipmiseld on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the freeipmi-ipmiseld
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove freeipmi-ipmiseld
Uninstall freeipmi-ipmiseld And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freeipmi-ipmiseld
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove freeipmi-ipmiseld
Remove freeipmi-ipmiseld Configurations and Data
To remove freeipmi-ipmiseld
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge freeipmi-ipmiseld
Remove freeipmi-ipmiseld configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freeipmi-ipmiseld
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freeipmi-ipmiseld
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-ipmiseld
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.