How to Install and Uninstall kernel-package Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "kernel-package" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install kernel-package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "kernel-package" package

Learn how to uninstall kernel-package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                kernel-package
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the kernel-package package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: kernel-package
Priority: optional
Section: universe/misc
Installed-Size: 1710
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava
Architecture: all
Version: 13.018
Depends: build-essential, po-debconf, gettext, file, bc, binutils, kmod, xz-utils, xmlto, lzma, bzip2, dpkg-dev
Recommends: docbook-utils, cpio, uboot-mkimage, kernel-common
Suggests: linux-source, libncurses-dev
Filename: pool/universe/k/kernel-package/kernel-package_13.018_all.deb
Size: 244262
MD5sum: f1d97741e5503caad1d93825163247b3
SHA1: 1f3493f53c2756adfb0d887bc4f65e01f004a0e2
SHA256: 8c013ce249511f595ed626a24681aae74ff0bdc8b3fa5684997e726bf4cbfd22
Description-en: utility for building Linux kernel related Debian packages
This package provides the capability to create a Debian kernel image
package by just running make-kpkg kernel_image in a kernel source
directory tree. It can also package the relevant kernel headers into
a kernel-headers package. In general, this package is very useful if
you need to create a custom kernel, if, for example, the default
kernel does not support some of your hardware, or you wish a leaner,
meaner kernel. It also scripts the steps that need be taken to
compile the kernel, which is quite convenient (forgetting a crucial
step once was the initial motivation for this package). Please look at
/usr/share/doc/kernel-package/Rationale for a full list of advantages
of this package.
Description-md5: 548d6e78ffc94b66c0cf1bc6f6608b57
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu