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Quick installation of ifupdown:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: ifupdown
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install ifupdown
Package Details | |
| Package: | ifupdown |
| Version: | 0.7~beta2ubuntu11.1 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | |
| Description: | high level tools to configure network interfaces This package provides the tools ifup and ifdown which may be used to configure (or, respectively, deconfigure) network interfaces based on interface definitions in the file /etc/network/interfaces. Multi-Arch: foreign |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | admin |
How to install ifupdown 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 ifupdown is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L ifupdown' will give followin error.
Installing ifupdown:
After system update use the following command to install ifupdown:
sudo apt-get install ifupdown
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 ifupdown from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the ifupdown 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 ifupdown following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove ifupdown
Following command is used to remove the ifupdown package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove ifupdown
This will remove ifupdown and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing ifupdown with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge ifupdown
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove ifupdown
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with ifupdown package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
