How to Install and Uninstall google-guest-agent Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 05,2024

You can also install and uninstall the google-guest-agent on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "google-guest-agent" package

This guide let you learn how to install google-guest-agent on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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2. Uninstall "google-guest-agent" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall google-guest-agent on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the google-guest-agent package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: google-guest-agent
Source: google-guest-agent (20211116.00-6)
Version: 20211116.00-6+b7
Installed-Size: 20237
Maintainer: Debian Cloud Team
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: python3-google-compute-engine
Provides: python3-google-compute-engine
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Conflicts: python3-google-compute-engine
Description: Guest Agent for Google Compute Engine
Description-md5: 7271d9cda055ba8d3f66f58a065a3918
Homepage: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-agent
Built-Using: golang-1.19 (= 1.19.8-2), golang-github-go-ini-ini (= 1.55.0-1), golang-github-golang-groupcache (= 0.0~git20200121.8c9f03a-2), golang-github-golang-protobuf-1-3 (= 1.3.5-4), golang-github-google-go-cmp (= 0.5.9-1), golang-github-googleapis-gax-go (= 2.0.5-4), golang-github-googlecloudplatform-guest-logging-go (= 0.0~git20210621.facc9c0-1.1), golang-github-kardianos-service (= 1.2.1-1), golang-github-tarm-serial (= 0.0+git20151113-5.1), golang-go.opencensus (= 0.24.0-1), golang-golang-x-net (= 1:0.7.0+dfsg-1), golang-golang-x-oauth2 (= 0.3.0-1), golang-golang-x-sync (= 0.1.0-1), golang-golang-x-sys (= 0.3.0-1), golang-golang-x-text (= 0.7.0-1), golang-google-api (= 0.61.0-1), golang-google-cloud (= 0.56.0-3), golang-google-genproto (= 0.0~git20200413.b5235f6-3), golang-google-grpc (= 1.33.3-2)
Section: golang
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/google-guest-agent/google-guest-agent_20211116.00-6+b7_amd64.deb
Size: 6173328
MD5sum: b86d948ddffa46967f4dd6712d504ce7
SHA256: b58bc062075256060167eebc212a57237bf7e60d65d8de894d05d2f3b31c3723