How to Install and Uninstall guestfish Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 15,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "guestfish" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install guestfish on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "guestfish" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall guestfish on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the guestfish package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: guestfish
Source: libguestfs
Version: 1:1.48.6-2
Installed-Size: 1558
Maintainer: Debian Libvirt Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: libguestfs-tools (<< 1:1.46)
Depends: libguestfs0 (= 1:1.48.6-2), libc6 (>= 2.34), libconfig9, libreadline8 (>= 6.0), libtinfo6 (>= 6), libtirpc3 (>= 1.0.2), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
Breaks: libguestfs-tools (<< 1:1.46)
Description: guest filesystem shell
Description-md5: fe3347006f63bfea9da9eb4d41b7fda0
Homepage: http://libguestfs.org
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libg/libguestfs/guestfish_1.48.6-2_amd64.deb
Size: 617844
MD5sum: 2d87a1b5a519bdbd8fe9c409f7764831
SHA256: 7bc93f33bb2b04cbce30429bd163e6cf7afca03ace3492274454c46254e8a77c