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Enter a command. For example: apt, utmpdump, mimetype, yum, rpmspec.

modprobe

Add or remove modules from the Linux kernel. More information: https://manned.org/modprobe.

• Pretend to load a module into the kernel, but don't actually do it:
   
  sudo modprobe --dry-run {{module_name}}
   
• Load a module into the kernel:
   
  sudo modprobe {{module_name}}
   
• Remove a module from the kernel:
   
  sudo modprobe --remove {{module_name}}
   
• Remove a module and those that depend on it from the kernel:
   
  sudo modprobe --remove-dependencies {{module_name}}
   
• Show a kernel module's dependencies:
   
  sudo modprobe --show-depends {{module_name}}