How To Install blktap-dkms on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install blktap-dkms on Debian 9.
What is blktap-dkms
blktap-dkms is:
The Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) is an open source enterprise-ready server virtualization and cloud computing platform, delivering the Xen Hypervisor with support for a range of guest operating systems. This package is part of it. It implements the userland part of the blktap driver.
Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) is a file format standard which maps logical hard disk contents to a physical disk image format, which can then be more efficiently stored in a variety of different storage types, such as file systems or logical volumes.
VHDs are container files storing block metadata alongside a virtual disk’s contents, in a single disk image. The metadata enables advanced storage backend capabilities, such as thin provisioning, disk image snapshotting, and coalescing of differencing disks. . Libvhd is a library to access VHD format metadata. It provides disk image initialization, inspection and manipulation to both VHD user utilities and the VHD disk driver in Blktap.
This package contains the source for the blktap kernel module. It includes DKMS support so that installation of this package will result in a working blktap kernel module.
There are three methods to install blktap-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 blktap-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 blktap-dkms using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install blktap-dkms
Install blktap-dkms Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install blktap-dkms using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install blktap-dkms
Install blktap-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 blktap-dkms using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install blktap-dkms
How To Uninstall blktap-dkms on Debian 9
To uninstall only the blktap-dkms package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove blktap-dkms
Uninstall blktap-dkms And Its Dependencies
To uninstall blktap-dkms and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove blktap-dkms
Remove blktap-dkms Configurations and Data
To remove blktap-dkms configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge blktap-dkms
Remove blktap-dkms configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove blktap-dkms configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge blktap-dkms
Dependencies
blktap-dkms have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install blktap-dkms package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.