How To Install hotswap-text on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hotswap-text
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is hotswap-text
hotswap-text is:
Hotswap is a utility to register and deregister hotswappable IDE hardware. It is written to be used on Laptops with some sort of hardware bay to remove the module from the machine without rebooting it. eg. Dell Laptops.
Note that this utility is not required to insert or remove batteries or floppy disk drives; only for IDE devices.
This package includes the command line tool.
There are three methods to install hotswap-text
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 hotswap-text Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hotswap-text
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hotswap-text
Install hotswap-text Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hotswap-text
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hotswap-text
Install hotswap-text 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 hotswap-text
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hotswap-text
How To Uninstall hotswap-text on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the hotswap-text
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hotswap-text
Uninstall hotswap-text And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hotswap-text
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hotswap-text
Remove hotswap-text Configurations and Data
To remove hotswap-text
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hotswap-text
Remove hotswap-text configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hotswap-text
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hotswap-text
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hotswap-text
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.