How To Install ibutils on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibutils
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ibutils
ibutils is:
This package contains a set of utilities useful for diagnosing and testing InfiniBand based networks.
There are three methods to install ibutils
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 ibutils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ibutils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ibutils
Install ibutils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ibutils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ibutils
Install ibutils 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 ibutils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ibutils
How To Uninstall ibutils on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ibutils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ibutils
Uninstall ibutils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ibutils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ibutils
Remove ibutils Configurations and Data
To remove ibutils
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ibutils
Remove ibutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ibutils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ibutils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibutils
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.