How To Install linux-headers-virtual on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install linux-headers-virtual on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is linux-headers-virtual
linux-headers-virtual is:
This package will always depend on linux-headers-generic.
Package: linux-headers-virtual Architecture: amd64 Version: 5.4.0.26.32 Priority: optional Section: devel Source: linux-meta Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Kernel Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 17 Depends: linux-headers-generic (= 5.4.0.26.32) Filename: pool/main/l/linux-meta/linux-headers-virtual_5.4.0.26.32_amd64.deb Size: 1840 MD5sum: 2c49d9a54224f1743f266f4c0ff790cc SHA1: 911fd4a6021c41a0d4410b31c74ec57acd729042 SHA256: bdbf19cc6446d798db109144d25cf7c1d99b75d11ccad19323df3bb461cdaf7c Description-en: Virtual Linux kernel headers This package will always depend on linux-headers-generic.
There are three methods to install linux-headers-virtual on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install linux-headers-virtual Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install linux-headers-virtual using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install linux-headers-virtual
Install linux-headers-virtual Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install linux-headers-virtual using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install linux-headers-virtual
Install linux-headers-virtual 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install linux-headers-virtual using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install linux-headers-virtual
How To Uninstall linux-headers-virtual on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the linux-headers-virtual package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-virtual
Uninstall linux-headers-virtual And Its Dependencies
To uninstall linux-headers-virtual and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove linux-headers-virtual
Remove linux-headers-virtual Configurations and Data
To remove linux-headers-virtual configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge linux-headers-virtual
Remove linux-headers-virtual configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove linux-headers-virtual configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge linux-headers-virtual
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install linux-headers-virtual package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
