How To Install superiotool on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install superiotool on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is superiotool
superiotool is:
Superiotool is a user-space utility which can
detect which Super I/O chip is soldered onto your mainboard,
at which configuration port it’s located (usually 0x2e or 0x4e), and
dump all register contents of the Super I/O chip, together with the default values as per datasheet (to make comparing the values easy).
It is mainly used for coreboot (previously known as LinuxBIOS) development purposes (see coreboot.org for details on coreboot), but it may also be useful for other things.
There are three methods to install superiotool 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 superiotool Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install superiotool using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install superiotool
Install superiotool Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install superiotool using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install superiotool
Install superiotool 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 superiotool using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install superiotool
How To Uninstall superiotool on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the superiotool package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove superiotool
Uninstall superiotool And Its Dependencies
To uninstall superiotool and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove superiotool
Remove superiotool Configurations and Data
To remove superiotool configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge superiotool
Remove superiotool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove superiotool configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge superiotool
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install superiotool package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
