How To Install linux-headers-azure on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install linux-headers-azure
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is linux-headers-azure
linux-headers-azure is:
This package will always depend on the latest kernel headers available for Azure systems.
Package: linux-headers-azure Architecture: amd64 Version: 5.4.0.1010.11 Priority: optional Section: metapackages Source: linux-meta-azure Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Kernel Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 12 Depends: linux-headers-5.4.0-1010-azure Filename: pool/main/l/linux-meta-azure/linux-headers-azure_5.4.0.1010.11_amd64.deb Size: 2556 MD5sum: af206123d7a302cd72dc6449349f15d6 SHA1: 40091874630f767f5185cabb76103f9c8fcc304a SHA256: 0124b7d84a7ace69656c3b1cacfba2888d0d7379dca70d3f14419b44f305cd17 Description-en: Linux kernel headers for Azure systems. This package will always depend on the latest kernel headers available for Azure systems.
There are three methods to install linux-headers-azure
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-azure 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-azure
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install linux-headers-azure
Install linux-headers-azure Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install linux-headers-azure
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install linux-headers-azure
Install linux-headers-azure 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-azure
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install linux-headers-azure
How To Uninstall linux-headers-azure on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the linux-headers-azure
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-azure
Uninstall linux-headers-azure And Its Dependencies
To uninstall linux-headers-azure
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-azure
Remove linux-headers-azure Configurations and Data
To remove linux-headers-azure
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge linux-headers-azure
Remove linux-headers-azure configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove linux-headers-azure
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge linux-headers-azure
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install linux-headers-azure
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.