How To Install freeboard on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeboard
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is freeboard
freeboard is:
open source real-time dashboard builder for IoT and other web mashups. A free open-source alternative to Geckoboard.
There are three methods to install freeboard
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 freeboard Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install freeboard
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install freeboard
Install freeboard Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install freeboard
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install freeboard
Install freeboard 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 freeboard
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install freeboard
How To Uninstall freeboard on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the freeboard
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove freeboard
Uninstall freeboard And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freeboard
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove freeboard
Remove freeboard Configurations and Data
To remove freeboard
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge freeboard
Remove freeboard configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freeboard
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freeboard
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeboard
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.