How to Install and Uninstall kmod Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "kmod" package

This is a short guide on how to install kmod on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                kmod
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "kmod" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall kmod on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                kmod
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the kmod package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: kmod
Version: 26-1
Installed-Size: 237
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libkmod2 (= 26-1), lsb-base
Breaks: alsa-base (<= 1.0.25+3), oss-compat (= 4)
Description: tools for managing Linux kernel modules
Description-md5: 0cd8f9566ff621a593309a12fd64999f
Multi-Arch: foreign
Tag: implemented-in::c, role::program
Section: admin
Priority: important
Filename: pool/main/k/kmod/kmod_26-1_amd64.deb
Size: 90168
MD5sum: 4429079b89dbfb7d00810d4b945aaff3
SHA256: e284de54f7e866be371b7a3a4ccfb25e7794f9a67c5e2256d5b23bc021cbeba5