How To Install dmeventd on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install dmeventd on Ubuntu 20.04. dmeventd is Linux Kernel Device Mapper event daemon Linux Kernel Device Mapper event daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dmeventd on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is `dmeventd`

dmeventd is:

The Linux Kernel Device Mapper is the LVM (Linux Logical Volume Management) Team’s implementation of a minimalistic kernel-space driver that handles volume management, while keeping knowledge of the underlying device layout in user-space. This makes it useful for not only LVM, but software raid, and other drivers that create “virtual” block devices.

This package contains a daemon to monitor events of devmapper devices. Task: server, cloud-image, ubuntu-live, kubuntu-live, xubuntu-live, lubuntu-live, ubuntustudio-dvd-live, ubuntukylin-live, ubuntu-mate-live, ubuntu-budgie-live

Package: dmeventd Architecture: amd64 Version: 2:1.02.167-1ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: admin Source: lvm2 (2.03.07-1ubuntu1) Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian LVM Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 244 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.28), libdevmapper-event1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.110), libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.110), liblvm2cmd2.03 (>= 2.03.07) Filename: pool/main/l/lvm2/dmeventd_1.02.167-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 35076 MD5sum: 3047462022e08593b816dce00af1e4c7 SHA1: e50121464a30dd6fde15172d1a1600a48fcb8fd2 SHA256: bd4c9c53ee56f26fb526ff12b9b168964e1a2c3e38e56dafa78a0f926aaafb94 Homepage: http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/ Description-en: Linux Kernel Device Mapper event daemon The Linux Kernel Device Mapper is the LVM (Linux Logical Volume Management) Team’s implementation of a minimalistic kernel-space driver that handles volume management, while keeping knowledge of the underlying device layout in user-space. This makes it useful for not only LVM, but software raid, and other drivers that create “virtual” block devices.

There are three methods to install dmeventd on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install dmeventd Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install dmeventd using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install dmeventd

Install dmeventd Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install dmeventd using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install dmeventd

Install dmeventd 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 dmeventd using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dmeventd

How To Uninstall dmeventd on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the dmeventd package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove dmeventd

Uninstall dmeventd And Its Dependencies

To uninstall dmeventd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dmeventd

Remove dmeventd Configurations and Data

To remove dmeventd configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge dmeventd

Remove dmeventd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove dmeventd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dmeventd

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dmeventd package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.