How To Install linuxinfo on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install linuxinfo
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is linuxinfo
linuxinfo is:
Displays system info, such as kernel revision, glibc version, processor type and memory size, in general by parsing /proc/cpuinfo.
There are three methods to install linuxinfo
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install linuxinfo Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install linuxinfo
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install linuxinfo
Install linuxinfo Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install linuxinfo
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install linuxinfo
Install linuxinfo 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 linuxinfo
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install linuxinfo
How To Uninstall linuxinfo on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the linuxinfo
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove linuxinfo
Uninstall linuxinfo And Its Dependencies
To uninstall linuxinfo
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove linuxinfo
Remove linuxinfo Configurations and Data
To remove linuxinfo
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge linuxinfo
Remove linuxinfo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove linuxinfo
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge linuxinfo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install linuxinfo
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.