How to Install and Uninstall fai-client Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: February 16,2025

1. Install "fai-client" package

This tutorial shows how to install fai-client on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                fai-client
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "fai-client" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall fai-client on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                fai-client
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fai-client package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: fai-client
Architecture: all
Version: 5.10.2ubuntu1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/admin
Source: fai
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Thomas Lange
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 336
Depends: perl, file, libapt-pkg-perl, libfile-lchown-perl, iproute2, debconf-utils, procps
Recommends: libgraph-perl, fdisk | util-linux (<< 2.29.2-3~)
Suggests: logtail
Breaks: fai-nfsroot (<< 5.2)
Replaces: fai-nfsroot (<< 5.2)
Filename: pool/universe/f/fai/fai-client_5.10.2ubuntu1_all.deb
Size: 86488
MD5sum: 31c82a9ad3ef08f5b785faaa964e86b6
SHA1: 7841904e71396b0348cd194d8e5d4165cfe3a560
SHA256: 38b61c3a4c3241d42f8ef9eff4a1b2f790363a044edaaa3ffcd2485aab5a2dcb
SHA512: f3b6acf1789514932a0e5bec41508ad1450cdb322bdaacc41683f905975cf1b15140db69b5fb7a67ac1eadf59fb5e9dfb21a2fcdc4efb57c86bc4e84b27b9c55
Homepage: https://fai-project.org
Description-en: Fully Automatic Installation client package
FAI is a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage
Linux systems and software configurations on computers as well as
virtual machines and chroot environments, from small networks to
large infrastructures and clusters.
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This is the client package for FAI. It contains the parts necessary
to run the softupdate functionality on already installed systems, and
is needed for the dirinstall functionality and others on a FAI server.
Description-md5: d510270ba6a996cf1844db50b57d18b3