How To Install opensm on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install opensm
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is opensm
opensm is:
OpenSM provides an implementation of an InfiniBand Subnet Manager (SM) and Administrator (SA). One Subnet Manager is required to run on each InfiniBand subnet in order to initialize the InfiniBand hardware.
There are three methods to install opensm
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 opensm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install opensm
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install opensm
Install opensm Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install opensm
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install opensm
Install opensm 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 opensm
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install opensm
How To Uninstall opensm on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the opensm
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove opensm
Uninstall opensm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall opensm
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove opensm
Remove opensm Configurations and Data
To remove opensm
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge opensm
Remove opensm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove opensm
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge opensm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install opensm
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.