How To Install aufs-dkms on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aufs-dkms on Debian 9.
What is aufs-dkms
aufs-dkms is:
The aufs driver provides a union mount for Linux filesystems. It allows one to virtually merge the contents of several directories and/or stack them, so that file changes in the aufs union mount end up as changes in only one of the source directories.
This package contains the DKMS files to build and install aufs.
To install this package, you have to install the header files for your current
kernel manually (usually included in the “linux-headers-
There are three methods to install aufs-dkms on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install aufs-dkms Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install aufs-dkms using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install aufs-dkms
Install aufs-dkms Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install aufs-dkms using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install aufs-dkms
Install aufs-dkms Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install aufs-dkms using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install aufs-dkms
How To Uninstall aufs-dkms on Debian 9
To uninstall only the aufs-dkms package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove aufs-dkms
Uninstall aufs-dkms And Its Dependencies
To uninstall aufs-dkms and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove aufs-dkms
Remove aufs-dkms Configurations and Data
To remove aufs-dkms configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge aufs-dkms
Remove aufs-dkms configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove aufs-dkms configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aufs-dkms
Dependencies
aufs-dkms have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aufs-dkms package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
