How To Install devio on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install devio on Ubuntu 22.04. devio is correctly read (or write) a region of a block device

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install devio on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is devio

devio is:

devio is a command line program to read correctly from mtd character (and other block) devices. devio allows access to specific regions of the device and allows output of data from specific locations. The primary difference between devio and other command line utilities, such as dd and cat, is that it is not stream based - it writes directly into the object rather than reading and writing a stream of data.

There are three methods to install devio 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 devio Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install devio

Install devio Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install devio

Install devio 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 devio using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install devio

How To Uninstall devio on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove devio

Uninstall devio And Its Dependencies

To uninstall devio and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove devio

Remove devio Configurations and Data

To remove devio configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge devio

Remove devio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge devio

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install devio package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.