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Quick installation of fdutils:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: fdutils
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install fdutils
Package Details | |
| Package: | fdutils |
| Version: | 5.5-20060227-7 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://fdutils.linux.lu/ |
| Description: | Linux floppy utilities This package contains utilities for formatting extra capacity disks, automatic floppy disk mounting and unmounting, etc. . The package includes the following items: . - superformat: formats high capacity disks (up to 1992k for high density disks or up to 3984k for extra density disks); - fdmount: automatically mounts/unmounts disks when they are inserted/removed; - xdfcopy: formats, reads and writes OS/2's XDF disks; - MAKEFLOPPIES: creates the floppy devices in /dev; - getfdprm: prints the current disk geometry (number of sectors, track and heads etc.); - setfdprm: sets the current disk geometry; - fdrawcmd: sends raw commands to the floppy driver; - floppycontrol: configures the floppy driver; - general documentation about the floppy driver. . Note that these utilities do not work for USB floppy drives, because these do not allow direct access to the floppy controller. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 17.04 |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/utils |
How to install fdutils on Ubuntu 17.04?
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 17.04 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 fdutils is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L fdutils' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L fdutils dpkg-query: package 'fdutils' 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 fdutils:
After system update use the following command to install fdutils:
sudo apt-get install fdutils
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 17.04 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 fdutils from Ubuntu 17.04?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the fdutils from Ubuntu 17.04. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the fdutils following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove fdutils
Following command is used to remove the fdutils package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove fdutils
This will remove fdutils and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing fdutils with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge fdutils
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove fdutils
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with fdutils package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
