How To Install scsitools-gui on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install scsitools-gui on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is scsitools-gui
scsitools-gui is:
This package is a collection of tools for manipulating SCSI hardware:
scsiinfo: displays SCSI drive low-level information and modifies SCSI drive settings, scsidev: makes permanent SCSI LUN -> devicename connections, scsifmt: low-level SCSI formatter, sraw: benchmarks raw SCSI I/O rates bypassing the buffer cache, scsi-spin: program to manually spin up and down a SCSI device.
Beware that, to be used properly, these tools require some knowledge of what they’re doing as they can cause damage to your system.
This package contains the graphical front-end for scsitools
There are three methods to install scsitools-gui 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 scsitools-gui Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install scsitools-gui using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install scsitools-gui
Install scsitools-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install scsitools-gui using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install scsitools-gui
Install scsitools-gui 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 scsitools-gui using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install scsitools-gui
How To Uninstall scsitools-gui on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the scsitools-gui package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove scsitools-gui
Uninstall scsitools-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall scsitools-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove scsitools-gui
Remove scsitools-gui Configurations and Data
To remove scsitools-gui configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge scsitools-gui
Remove scsitools-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove scsitools-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge scsitools-gui
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install scsitools-gui package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
