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Install Modutils by running the following commands:
./configure && make && make install
The Modutils package contains the depmod, genksyms, insmod, insmod_ksymoops_clean, kerneld, kernelversion, ksyms, lsmod, modinfo, modprobe and rmmod programs.
depmod handles dependency descriptions for loadable kernel modules.
genksyms reads (on standard input) the output from gcc -E source.c and generates a file containing version information.
insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel.
insmod_ksymoops_clean deletes saved ksyms and modules not accessed in 2 days.
kerneld performs kernel action in user space (such as on-demand loading of modules)
kernelversion reports the major version of the running kernel.
ksyms displays exported kernel symbols.
lsmod shows information about all loaded modules.
modinfo examines an object file associated with a kernel module and displays any information that it can glean.
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 unloads loadable modules from the running kernel.
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