How To Install dkms on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dkms
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is dkms
dkms is:
DKMS is a framework designed to allow individual kernel modules to be upgraded without changing the whole kernel. It is also very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels.
Package: dkms Architecture: all Version: 2.8.1-5ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Dynamic Kernel Modules Support Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 289 Pre-Depends: lsb-release Depends: kmod | kldutils, gcc | c-compiler, dpkg-dev, make | build-essential, coreutils (>= 7.4), patch Recommends: fakeroot, sudo, linux-headers-686-pae | linux-headers-amd64 | linux-headers-generic | linux-headers Suggests: menu, e2fsprogs Breaks: shim-signed (« 1.34~) Filename: pool/main/d/dkms/dkms_2.8.1-5ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 66632 MD5sum: 644e15cc2540dd613284a89ae1355084 SHA1: dbc90a2b697918fe2ef53e9de884c1650d9af725 SHA256: f9d460f186b0b41b3d544e45f9b87b865fcaa84023fec16dd2b50af46c523138 Homepage: https://github.com/dell-oss/dkms Description-en: Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework DKMS is a framework designed to allow individual kernel modules to be upgraded without changing the whole kernel. It is also very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels.
There are three methods to install dkms
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 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 dkms
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dkms
Install dkms Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dkms
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dkms
Install 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install dkms
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dkms
How To Uninstall dkms on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the dkms
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dkms
Uninstall dkms And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dkms
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dkms
Remove dkms Configurations and Data
To remove dkms
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dkms
Remove dkms configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dkms
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dkms
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dkms
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.