How To Install ioport on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ioport on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is ioport
ioport is:
This package provides tools to read and wrote to the I/O ports of PC hardware directly from a script or a command line: inb, inw, inl, outb, outw and outl.
There are three methods to install ioport on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ioport Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ioport using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ioport
Install ioport Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ioport using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ioport
Install ioport 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 ioport using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ioport
How To Uninstall ioport on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the ioport package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ioport
Uninstall ioport And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ioport and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ioport
Remove ioport Configurations and Data
To remove ioport configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ioport
Remove ioport configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ioport configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ioport
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ioport package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.