How To Install dmsetup on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dmsetup on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is dmsetup
dmsetup 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 utility for modifying device mappings. Task: minimal
Package: dmsetup Architecture: amd64 Version: 2:1.02.167-1ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: important 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: 270 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.138) Filename: pool/main/l/lvm2/dmsetup_1.02.167-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 75576 MD5sum: f45d799d6bb38e17d90c96c1e8eddc4e SHA1: 721688c2497cc71aaf76b02b70f05294c50ea4a4 SHA256: 107aec366e0ae17ffda6aa1b696e4abb8806ab308dddf4b8224974e9d2f4ae86 Homepage: http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/ Description-en: Linux Kernel Device Mapper userspace library 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 utility for modifying device mappings. Task: minimal
There are three methods to install dmsetup 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 dmsetup Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dmsetup using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dmsetup
Install dmsetup Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dmsetup using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dmsetup
Install dmsetup 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 dmsetup using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dmsetup
How To Uninstall dmsetup on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the dmsetup package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dmsetup
Uninstall dmsetup And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dmsetup and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dmsetup
Remove dmsetup Configurations and Data
To remove dmsetup configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dmsetup
Remove dmsetup configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dmsetup configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dmsetup
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dmsetup package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
