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Quick installation of discover:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: discover
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install discover
Package Details | |
| Package: | discover |
| Version: | 2.1.2-5.1 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | |
| Description: | hardware identification system Discover is a hardware identification system based on the libdiscover2 library. Discover provides a flexible interface that programs can use to report a wide range of information about the hardware that is installed on a Linux system. In addition to reporting information, Discover includes support for doing hardware detection at boot time. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/admin |
How to install discover on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If discover is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L discover' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L discover Package `discover' is not installed. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing discover:
After system update use the following command to install discover:
sudo apt-get install discover
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove discover from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the discover from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the discover following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove discover
Following command is used to remove the discover package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove discover
This will remove discover and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing discover with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge discover
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove discover
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with discover package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
