How to Install and Uninstall i2c-tools Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "i2c-tools" package

This guide let you learn how to install i2c-tools on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                i2c-tools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "i2c-tools" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall i2c-tools on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                i2c-tools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the i2c-tools package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: i2c-tools
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.1-2build2
Priority: extra
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Aurelien Jarno
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 308
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libi2c0 (>= 4.0), perl:any, adduser, udev
Recommends: read-edid
Suggests: libi2c-dev, python-smbus
Conflicts: lm-sensors (<< 1:3.0.0-1)
Filename: pool/universe/i/i2c-tools/i2c-tools_4.1-2build2_amd64.deb
Size: 70608
MD5sum: 1658754305063d265697888cbb252708
SHA1: 2f3db5c870b0b2cd7f0b634ee7725ff51e3409b0
SHA256: 331a7d4217660257e36fcabf37a7eaaf1315999f8147c2b12373dfbc2918f42d
SHA512: 9812323322902b8eccb5b21bce813935343aae8761787cb0dd5087c2852b775b9abdb87ef7fa924d024e7f20268a67fee32ca0b49b3f0a66974cb38a9e4dd1e9
Homepage: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/utils/i2c-tools/
Description-en: heterogeneous set of I2C tools for Linux
This package contains a heterogeneous set of I2C tools for Linux: a bus
probing tool, a chip dumper, register-level access helpers, EEPROM
decoding scripts, and more.
Description-md5: 675f45359e19feae2eb165a5b0b5bdd7