apt-get Install dmidecode

How do you install dmidecode in Linux using apt-get command?

How to Install dmidecode with apt-get?

Here is a tutorial to learn how to install dmidecode using apt-get command.

Step 1: Open terminal with su access and enter the command as shown below:
apt-get install dmidecode -y

Step 2: After completion, the install command exits and instructs the user to restart the running instances of dmidecode if it is running already.

Result of the Command Execution shown below:

root@hiox:~ apt-get install dmidecode -y
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
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Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dmidecode
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 49 not upgraded.
Need to get 59.5kB of archives.
After this operation, 205kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://old releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main dmidecode 2.9 1.2 [59.5kB]
Fetched 59.5kB in 0s (89.4kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package dmidecode.
(Reading database ... (Reading database ... 5%(Reading database ... 10%(Reading database ... 15%(Reading database ... 20%(Reading database ... 25%(Reading database ... 30%(Reading database ... 35%(Reading database ... 40%(Reading database ... 45%(Reading database ... 50%(Reading database ... 55%(Reading database ... 60%(Reading database ... 65%(Reading database ... 70%(Reading database ... 75%(Reading database ... 80%(Reading database ... 85%(Reading database ... 90%(Reading database ... 95%(Reading database ... 100%(Reading database ... 200743 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking dmidecode (from .../dmidecode_2.9 1.2_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man db ...
Setting up dmidecode (2.9 1.2) ...
root@hiox:~

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