How To Install freeipmi on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is freeipmi
freeipmi 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 metapackage depends on all separate modules of freeipmi.
Package: freeipmi Architecture: all Version: 1.6.4-3ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: universe/admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 22 Depends: freeipmi-tools, freeipmi-ipmidetect, freeipmi-bmc-watchdog, freeipmi-common (= 1.6.4-3ubuntu1) Filename: pool/universe/f/freeipmi/freeipmi_1.6.4-3ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 1928 MD5sum: d0a4a361e1a1dca84284bb80fe54def4 SHA1: a6879ba1de0a1df8792e5e4f2cab536e0b64eaf8 SHA256: e641cd4b4cdb7996383742cba1a2bf6a09da0955bd82ca2871668f4dd9094c21 Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/ Description-en: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol 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 metapackage depends on all separate modules of freeipmi.
There are three methods to install freeipmi
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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install freeipmi
Install freeipmi Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install freeipmi
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install freeipmi
Install freeipmi 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install freeipmi
How To Uninstall freeipmi on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the freeipmi
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove freeipmi
Uninstall freeipmi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freeipmi
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove freeipmi
Remove freeipmi Configurations and Data
To remove freeipmi
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge freeipmi
Remove freeipmi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freeipmi
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freeipmi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.