How to Install and Uninstall qemu-system-x86 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 08,2024

You can also install and uninstall the qemu-system-x86 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "qemu-system-x86" package

Learn how to install qemu-system-x86 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "qemu-system-x86" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall qemu-system-x86 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-system-x86 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: qemu-system-x86
Source: qemu
Version: 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5
Installed-Size: 43538
Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: qemu-kvm
Provides: qemu-kvm, qemu-system-i386, qemu-system-x86-64
Depends: libaio1 (>= 0.3.93), libbpf1 (>= 1:0.0.8), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcapstone4 (>= 4), libfdt1 (>= 1.6.1), libfuse3-3 (>= 3.2.3), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.67.3), libgmp10 (>= 2:6.2.1+dfsg1), libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.5), libhogweed6, libibverbs1 (>= 28), libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1), libnettle8, libnuma1 (>= 2.0.11), libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.19.6), libpmem1 (>= 1.4), libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2-1), librdmacm1 (>= 1.0.15), libsasl2-2 (>= 2.1.28+dfsg), libseccomp2 (>= 2.1.0), libslirp0 (>= 4.7.0), libudev1 (>= 183), liburing2 (>= 2.3), libvdeplug2 (>= 4.0.1), libzstd1 (>= 1.5.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0), qemu-system-common (= 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5), qemu-system-data (>> 1:7.2+dfsg~), seabios, ipxe-qemu
Recommends: qemu-system-gui (= 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5), qemu-utils, ovmf, qemu-block-extra (= 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5)
Suggests: samba, vde2
Breaks: qemu-kvm
Description: QEMU full system emulation binaries (x86)
Description-md5: 2ad3dd27a937f58ca5b2ffccbe9c63b3
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/
Tag: uitoolkit::gtk, uitoolkit::ncurses, uitoolkit::sdl
Section: otherosfs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/q/qemu/qemu-system-x86_7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5_amd64.deb
Size: 9300432
MD5sum: f35b26fcf5fd19fb0dd1bfd0c7b07a21
SHA256: 22c7a23dc08a8ab68e971e2a61de0f7eb6c16e04d8d3a8dc9b7cb10919aca0c7