How To Install usbsdmux on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install usbsdmux
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is usbsdmux
usbsdmux is:
The USB-SD-Mux hardware allows switching a microSD card between the host computer via USB or a device-under-test, allowing programmatic testing of low-level parts of the boot process such as boot loader and early operating system.
This package provides a commandline interface to control switching between host computer and device-under-test, as well as a command to configure the USB-SD-Mux device itself.
There are three methods to install usbsdmux
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install usbsdmux Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install usbsdmux
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install usbsdmux
Install usbsdmux Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install usbsdmux
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install usbsdmux
Install usbsdmux 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 usbsdmux
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install usbsdmux
How To Uninstall usbsdmux on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the usbsdmux
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove usbsdmux
Uninstall usbsdmux And Its Dependencies
To uninstall usbsdmux
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove usbsdmux
Remove usbsdmux Configurations and Data
To remove usbsdmux
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge usbsdmux
Remove usbsdmux configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove usbsdmux
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge usbsdmux
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install usbsdmux
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.