How To Install freeipmi-tools on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-tools on Ubuntu 20.04. freeipmi-tools is GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol - tools GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol - tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-tools on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is freeipmi-tools

freeipmi-tools 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 assorted IPMI-related tools:

  • bmc-config - configure BMC values
  • bmc-info - display BMC information
  • ipmi-chassis - IPMI chassis management utility
  • ipmi-fru - display FRU information
  • ipmi-locate - IPMI probing utility
  • ipmi-oem - IPMI OEM utility
  • ipmi-pet - decode Platform Event Traps
  • ipmi-raw - IPMI raw communication utility
  • ipmi-sel - display SEL entries
  • ipmi-sensors - display IPMI sensor information
  • ipmi-sensors-config - configure sensors
  • ipmiconsole - IPMI console utility
  • ipmiping - send IPMI Get Authentication Capabilitiy request
  • ipmipower - IPMI power control utility
  • pef-config - configure PEF values
  • rmcpping - send RMCP Ping to network hosts

Package: freeipmi-tools Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.6.4-3ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: 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: 3103 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libfreeipmi17 (>= 1.6.2), libipmiconsole2 (>= 1.4.4), libipmidetect0 (>= 1.1.5), freeipmi-common (= 1.6.4-3ubuntu1) Suggests: freeipmi-ipmidetect, freeipmi-bmc-watchdog Filename: pool/main/f/freeipmi/freeipmi-tools_1.6.4-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 636576 MD5sum: 826db1958737398e8bb0fcdb87d44666 SHA1: 686f387b871991fe0265140392e582cff082c5f1 SHA256: 7b982b6c9fe7fd6e81c7614a84b0e28c1d873882661fe2c7e20759039f577ead Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/ Description-en: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol - tools 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 assorted IPMI-related tools:

  • bmc-config - configure BMC values
  • bmc-info - display BMC information
  • ipmi-chassis - IPMI chassis management utility
  • ipmi-fru - display FRU information
  • ipmi-locate - IPMI probing utility
  • ipmi-oem - IPMI OEM utility
  • ipmi-pet - decode Platform Event Traps
  • ipmi-raw - IPMI raw communication utility
  • ipmi-sel - display SEL entries
  • ipmi-sensors - display IPMI sensor information
  • ipmi-sensors-config - configure sensors
  • ipmiconsole - IPMI console utility
  • ipmiping - send IPMI Get Authentication Capabilitiy request
  • ipmipower - IPMI power control utility
  • pef-config - configure PEF values
  • rmcpping - send RMCP Ping to network hosts

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

sudo apt-get -y install freeipmi-tools

Install freeipmi-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install freeipmi-tools

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

sudo aptitude -y install freeipmi-tools

How To Uninstall freeipmi-tools on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove freeipmi-tools

Uninstall freeipmi-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall freeipmi-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove freeipmi-tools

Remove freeipmi-tools Configurations and Data

To remove freeipmi-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge freeipmi-tools

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

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

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-tools package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.