How to Install and Uninstall open-vm-tools Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 03,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "open-vm-tools" package

This tutorial shows how to install open-vm-tools on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "open-vm-tools" package

Learn how to uninstall open-vm-tools 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 open-vm-tools package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: open-vm-tools
Version: 2:12.2.0-1+deb12u2
Installed-Size: 3221
Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: open-vm-tools-sdmp (<< 2:12.1.0-2~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.3), libfuse3-3 (>= 3.2.3), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libmspack0 (>= 0.4), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libtirpc3 (>= 1.0.2), libudev1 (>= 183), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libxmlsec1 (>= 1.2.31), libxmlsec1-openssl (>= 1.2.31), pciutils, iproute2, lsb-release
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Recommends: ethtool, zerofree, fuse3
Suggests: open-vm-tools-desktop, cloud-init, open-vm-tools-containerinfo, open-vm-tools-salt-minion
Breaks: open-vm-tools-sdmp (<< 2:12.1.0-2~)
Description: Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (CLI)
Description-md5: a6ea22fad449711c4296720ce1ebe6b4
Homepage: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
Tag: admin::virtualization, implemented-in::python, interface::graphical,
interface::x11, role::program, suite::openstack, system::cloud,
system::virtual, uitoolkit::gtk, x11::application
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_12.2.0-1+deb12u2_amd64.deb
Size: 685984
MD5sum: 3353311a0a10a58533905739ca6d4de4
SHA256: e2b9a2b73f7075096e5bcd3d21776aee270fe236b0870aad212e52f9fff1e40d