How To Install edac-utils on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install edac-utils on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is edac-utils
edac-utils is:
This package contains the user-space utilities for use with the EDAC kernel subsystem. EDAC (Error Detection and Correction) is a set of Linux kernel modules for handling hardware-related errors. Currently its major focus is ECC memory error handling. However it also detects and reports PCI bus parity errors.
PCI parity errors are supported on all architectures (and are a mandatory part of the PCI specification).
Main memory ECC drivers are memory controller specific. At the time of writing, drivers exist for many x86-specific chipsets and CPUs, and some PowerPC, and MIPS systems.
This package provides command lines tools
There are three methods to install edac-utils 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 edac-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install edac-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install edac-utils
Install edac-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install edac-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install edac-utils
Install edac-utils 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 edac-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install edac-utils
How To Uninstall edac-utils on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the edac-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove edac-utils
Uninstall edac-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall edac-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove edac-utils
Remove edac-utils Configurations and Data
To remove edac-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge edac-utils
Remove edac-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove edac-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge edac-utils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install edac-utils package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
