How To Install i2c-tools on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install i2c-tools on Ubuntu 20.04. i2c-tools is heterogeneous set of I2C tools for Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install i2c-tools on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is i2c-tools

i2c-tools is:

This package contains a heterogeneous set of I2C tools for Linux: a bus probing tool, a chip dumper, register-level access helpers, EEPROM decoding scripts, and more.

There are three methods to install i2c-tools 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 i2c-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install i2c-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install i2c-tools

Install i2c-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install i2c-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install i2c-tools

Install i2c-tools 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 i2c-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install i2c-tools

How To Uninstall i2c-tools on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the i2c-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove i2c-tools

Uninstall i2c-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall i2c-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove i2c-tools

Remove i2c-tools Configurations and Data

To remove i2c-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge i2c-tools

Remove i2c-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove i2c-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge i2c-tools

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install i2c-tools package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.