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

Last updated: January 11,2025

You can also install and uninstall the qemu-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 "qemu-guest-agent" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install qemu-guest-agent on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall qemu-guest-agent 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 qemu-guest-agent package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: qemu-guest-agent
Source: qemu
Version: 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5
Installed-Size: 1110
Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.63.3), libnuma1 (>= 2.0.11), libudev1 (>= 183), liburing2 (>= 2.3)
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_7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5_amd64.deb
Size: 334108
MD5sum: fcb3c68c6acc97d94e9a82b59d333edf
SHA256: eb908ceb5897635b8eaf5a8016bef1e89c5c78e80e0d597818b62797a7ebc535