Installing Modutils-2.4.12

Estimated build time:           1 minute
Estimated required disk space:  2 MB

Installation of Modutils

Install Modutils by running the following commands:

./configure &&
make &&
make install

Contents

The Modutils package contains the depmod, genksyms, insmod, insmod_ksymoops_clean, kerneld, kernelversion, ksyms, lsmod, modinfo, modprobe and rmmod programs.

Description

depmod

depmod handles dependency descriptions for loadable kernel modules.

genksyms

genksyms reads (on standard input) the output from gcc -E source.c and generates a file containing version information.

insmod

insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel.

insmod_ksymoops_clean

insmod_ksymoops_clean deletes saved ksyms and modules not accessed in 2 days.

kerneld

kerneld performs kernel action in user space (such as on-demand loading of modules)

kernelversion

kernelversion reports the major version of the running kernel.

ksyms

ksyms displays exported kernel symbols.

lsmod

lsmod shows information about all loaded modules.

modinfo

modinfo examines an object file associated with a kernel module and displays any information that it can glean.

modprobe

Modprobe uses a Makefile-like dependency file, created by depmod, to automatically load the relevant module(s) from the set of modules available in predefined directory trees.

rmmod

rmmod unloads loadable modules from the running kernel.

Dependencies

Modutils-2.4.7 needs the following to be installed:


sh from the bash package

ar from the binutils package
as from the binutils package
ld from the binutils package
strip from the binutils package

bison from the bison package

cmp from the diffutils package

chmod from the fileutils package
install from the fileutils package
ln from the fileutils package
mkdir from the fileutils package
mv from the fileutils package
rm from the fileutils package

flex from the flex package

cc from the gcc package

egrep from the grep package
grep from the grep package

make from the make package

sed from the sed package

expr from the sh-utils package
uname from the sh-utils package

cat from the textutils package
tr from the textutils package