How To Install statserial on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install statserial on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is statserial
statserial is:
Statserial displays a table of the signals on a standard 9-pin or 25-pin serial port, and indicates the status of the handshaking lines. It can be useful for debugging problems with serial ports or modems.
There are three methods to install statserial 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 statserial Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install statserial using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install statserial
Install statserial Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install statserial using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install statserial
Install statserial 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 statserial using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install statserial
How To Uninstall statserial on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the statserial package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove statserial
Uninstall statserial And Its Dependencies
To uninstall statserial and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove statserial
Remove statserial Configurations and Data
To remove statserial configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge statserial
Remove statserial configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove statserial configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge statserial
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install statserial package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
