How To Install user-mode-linux on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install user-mode-linux on Debian 12.
What is user-mode-linux
user-mode-linux is:
User-mode Linux (UML) is a port of the Linux kernel to its own system call interface. It provides a kind of virtual machine, which runs Linux as a user process under another Linux kernel. This is useful for kernel development, sandboxes, jails, experimentation, and many other things.
This package contains the kernel itself, as an executable program, and the associated kernel modules.
There are three methods to install user-mode-linux on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install user-mode-linux Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install user-mode-linux using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install user-mode-linux
Install user-mode-linux Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install user-mode-linux using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install user-mode-linux
Install user-mode-linux 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 user-mode-linux using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install user-mode-linux
How To Uninstall user-mode-linux on Debian 12
To uninstall only the user-mode-linux package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove user-mode-linux
Uninstall user-mode-linux And Its Dependencies
To uninstall user-mode-linux and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove user-mode-linux
Remove user-mode-linux Configurations and Data
To remove user-mode-linux configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge user-mode-linux
Remove user-mode-linux configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove user-mode-linux configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge user-mode-linux
Dependencies
user-mode-linux have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install user-mode-linux package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
