How To Install smitools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install smitools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is smitools
smitools is:
This package includes the following tools:
- smidiff: check differences between a pair of SMI or SPPI modules
- smiquery: query single information from SMI MIB modules
- smilint: syntax and semantic checks of SMIv1/v2 and SPPI modules
- smicache: caching method for use with libsmi
- smixlate: translate SMI/SPPI identifiers
- smidump: dump SMI or SPPI modules in various formats
You may also be interested by smistrip which is provided by smistrip package.
There are three methods to install smitools 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 smitools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install smitools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install smitools
Install smitools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install smitools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install smitools
Install smitools 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 smitools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install smitools
How To Uninstall smitools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the smitools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove smitools
Uninstall smitools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall smitools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove smitools
Remove smitools Configurations and Data
To remove smitools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge smitools
Remove smitools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove smitools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge smitools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install smitools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
