How To Install spl-dkms on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spl-dkms on Kali Linux.

What is spl-dkms

spl-dkms is:

The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which provides many of the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes it possible to run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with relatively minimal modification. The Solaris Porting LAyer Tests (SPLAT) is a Linux kernel module which provides a testing harness for the SPL module.

SPL can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream Illumos (or any other OpenSolaris fork) development closely and don’t want the overhead of maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux primitives.

This is a transitional dummy package. It can safely be removed. SPL dkms files had been merged into zfs-dkms as of ZFS 0.8.X series.

There are three methods to install spl-dkms on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install spl-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 spl-dkms using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install spl-dkms

Install spl-dkms Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install spl-dkms using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install spl-dkms

Install spl-dkms Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install spl-dkms using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install spl-dkms

How To Uninstall spl-dkms on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the spl-dkms package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove spl-dkms

Uninstall spl-dkms And Its Dependencies

To uninstall spl-dkms and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove spl-dkms

Remove spl-dkms Configurations and Data

To remove spl-dkms configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge spl-dkms

Remove spl-dkms configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove spl-dkms configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spl-dkms

Dependencies

spl-dkms have the following dependencies:

• zfs-dkms

References

• spl-dkms website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spl-dkms package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.