How to Install and Uninstall fusioninventory-agent Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: November 10,2024

1. Install "fusioninventory-agent" package

Please follow the guidance below to install fusioninventory-agent on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install fusioninventory-agent

2. Uninstall "fusioninventory-agent" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall fusioninventory-agent on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):

$ sudo apt remove fusioninventory-agent $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the fusioninventory-agent package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: fusioninventory-agent
Priority: extra
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 1658
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Gonéri Le Bouder
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:2.3.16-1
Depends: perl, ucf, libnet-cups-perl, libnet-ip-perl, libwww-perl, libparse-edid-perl, libproc-daemon-perl, libuniversal-require-perl, libproc-pid-file-perl, hdparm, libfile-which-perl, libxml-treepp-perl (>= 0.26), libyaml-perl, libtext-template-perl, libjson-perl, pciutils, libhttp-daemon-perl, libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl
Recommends: libio-socket-ssl-perl
Suggests: smartmontools, read-edid
Breaks: libfusioninventory-agent-task-deploy-perl (<< 1:2.3.0-1), libfusioninventory-agent-task-esx-perl (<< 1:2.3.0-1), libfusioninventory-agent-task-netdiscovery-perl (<< 1:2.3.0-1), libfusioninventory-agent-task-netinventory-perl (<< 1:2.3.0-1), libfusioninventory-agent-task-network-perl (<< 1:2.3.0-1)
Filename: pool/universe/f/fusioninventory-agent/fusioninventory-agent_2.3.16-1_amd64.deb
Size: 332558
MD5sum: f00b153e95d75d88323bd949b0cb213c
SHA1: 24c251353c95584dc8fdd679a612c41a452067c3
SHA256: 22d03019bb2241cd4fbf728b0c7f1eb080fe55f1f8eb3dca513c5b4da7a0cc66
Description-en: Hardware and software inventory tool (client)
FusionInventory Agent is an application designed to help a network
or system administrator to keep track of the hardware and software
configurations of devices.
This agent can collect information about from:
- the local machine (Inventory)
- the network using SNMP
- an VMware ESX or vCEnter server
The agent can be driven from different asset management software
including GLPI, Rudder, Uranos, OCSInventory.
.
The agent can also be used to install new software and configuration
changes.
Description-md5: cf0726a6146f6f98fd3c27d76174e90f
Homepage: http://fusioninventory.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu