How to Install and Uninstall kmod Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "kmod" package

This tutorial shows how to install kmod on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall kmod on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: kmod
Architecture: amd64
Version: 27+20200310-2ubuntu1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: important
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Marco d'Itri
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 255
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libkmod2 (= 27+20200310-2ubuntu1), lsb-base
Breaks: alsa-base (<= 1.0.25+3), oss-compat (= 4)
Filename: pool/main/k/kmod/kmod_27+20200310-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 94012
MD5sum: bdbc9a4ca397612fb4933bd1504043db
SHA1: a88b55265b9c3b9187318e36890c4409832aa54c
SHA256: 9372d5f4a6c7526ac63032b2c38d633c7a87c6c03a48d4b7f9829c270af446e1
SHA512: 09aca11bc8c8ae042baa1889e7f103ed06a2d9ac754f94e94300532bff1ba52eb435acfa4b4c00d4b321fee39bb680d54cac704d99bd67fe9c796edd1a10f83e
Description-en: tools for managing Linux kernel modules
This package contains a set of programs for loading, inserting, and
removing kernel modules for Linux.
It replaces module-init-tools.
Description-md5: 0cd8f9566ff621a593309a12fd64999f
Task: minimal