How to Install and Uninstall qemu-guest-agent Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "qemu-guest-agent" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install qemu-guest-agent on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                qemu-guest-agent
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "qemu-guest-agent" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall qemu-guest-agent on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                qemu-guest-agent
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the qemu-guest-agent package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: qemu-guest-agent
Source: qemu
Version: 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u9
Installed-Size: 706
Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.28), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.1), libudev1 (>= 183), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
Description: Guest-side qemu-system agent
Description-md5: c2bc281a0e5a8e6c2185b336580fd595
Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/
Multi-Arch: foreign
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Section: otherosfs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu-guest-agent_3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u9_amd64.deb
Size: 256560
MD5sum: 5e6a598213d7cd7a691a09a2de1a180f
SHA256: 24cf80980094a758267bae7666fdb89f343901094af46ccdb8c86b5bfe4fad6a

Package: qemu-guest-agent
Source: qemu
Version: 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8
Installed-Size: 706
Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.28), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.1), libudev1 (>= 183), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Description: Guest-side qemu-system agent
Description-md5: c2bc281a0e5a8e6c2185b336580fd595
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/
Section: otherosfs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/q/qemu/qemu-guest-agent_3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8_amd64.deb
Size: 256444
MD5sum: 11b4d5ca9630c69a4eb25f882cc9bf44
SHA256: bc239448683aa39a0f211af77095b48ab15f763dbcbe742f4ffaa702ed7dba49