How To Install pciutils on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pciutils
on Debian 11.
What is pciutils
pciutils is:
This package contains various utilities for inspecting and setting of devices connected to the PCI bus.
There are three methods to install pciutils
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pciutils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pciutils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pciutils
Install pciutils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pciutils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pciutils
Install pciutils 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install pciutils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pciutils
How To Uninstall pciutils on Debian 11
To uninstall only the pciutils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pciutils
Uninstall pciutils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pciutils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pciutils
Remove pciutils Configurations and Data
To remove pciutils
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pciutils
Remove pciutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pciutils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pciutils
Dependencies
pciutils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pciutils
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.