How to Install and Uninstall zram-tools Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: April 20,2024

1. Install "zram-tools" package

This is a short guide on how to install zram-tools on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                zram-tools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "zram-tools" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall zram-tools on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                zram-tools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the zram-tools package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: zram-tools
Architecture: all
Version: 0.3.2.1-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jonathan Carter
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 28
Depends: bc
Filename: pool/universe/z/zram-tools/zram-tools_0.3.2.1-1_all.deb
Size: 5576
MD5sum: e1603b9c0f12e1f350ebffe20d92df1c
SHA1: 6bb740d96acaa2a16963d72d09eef2fc7b01ff53
SHA256: 63f89447b8aab96972b1fc0c4a52c81ff84d8fbae95bb79948eb8de85a897642
SHA512: f96d2fe8002010f5c392e7b46555104e62ab1064c2f1919d346b7e33dc1408fc5a610be0e895ab6c4cc415c6e5bc57b1d2ab48e0a78ca0b94a8291474f3d520c
Homepage: https://github.com/highvoltage/zram-tools
Description-en: utilities for working with zram
zram is a Linux kernel module that allows you to set up compressed
filesystems in RAM.
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zram-tools uses this module to set up compressed swap space.
This is useful on systems with low memory or servers
running a large amount of services with data that's easily swappable
but that you may wish to swap back fast without sacrificing disk
bandwidth.
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By default it allocates 100MB of RAM, you can configure this in
/etc/default/zramswap.
Description-md5: ec6912716a950f68b3695264db84a2bc