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Installing NDCTL Packages on Linux

The ndctl utility is available in many Linux distribution package repositories. This approach is the easiest to implement and maintain, compared with installing ndctl from source code.

1) Query the repository to identify if ndctl is delivered:

Fedora 21 or earlier

yum search ndctl

Fedora 22 or later

dnf repoquery ndctl

2) Install the ndctl utility

Fedora 21 or earlier

yum install ndctl

Fedora 22 or later

dnf install ndctl

The ndctl package is available on CentOS and RHEL 7.0 or later.

1) Query the repository to identify if ndctl is delivered:

yum search ndctl

2) Install the ndctl package

$ yum install ndctl

1) Query the repository to identify if ndctl is delivered:

$ zypper search ndctl

2) Install the ndctl package

$ zypper install ndctl

The ndctl package is available on Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) or later.

1) Query the repository to identify if ndctl is delivered using either the aptitude, apt-cache, or apt utilities

2) Verify if the ndctl package is currently installed and check the version

3) Install the ndctl package or update an installed package

The ndctl package is available on Debian 10 (Buster) or later. See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ndctl for up to date information.

1) Query available versions in configured repos:

2) Query the repository to identify if ndctl is delivered using either the aptitude, apt-cache, or apt utilities

3) Verify if the ndctl package is currently installed and check the version

4) Install the ndctl package or update an installed package

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