How to Install and Uninstall qemu-user-static Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 17,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "qemu-user-static" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install qemu-user-static on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "qemu-user-static" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall qemu-user-static on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the qemu-user-static package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: qemu-user-static
Source: qemu
Version: 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5
Installed-Size: 300853
Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team
Architecture: amd64
Provides: qemu-user-binfmt
Recommends: systemd | binfmt-support
Conflicts: qemu-user-binfmt
Breaks: binfmt-support (<< 2.1.7~)
Description: QEMU user mode emulation binaries (static version)
Description-md5: 745cf1fdce8807e14d332ae512779b8f
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/
Built-Using: capstone (= 4.0.2-5), gcc-12 (= 12.2.0-14), glib2.0 (= 2.74.6-2), glibc (= 2.36-9+deb12u3), gnutls28 (= 3.7.9-2+deb12u2), liburing (= 2.3-3), numactl (= 2.0.16-1), zlib (= 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1)
Section: otherosfs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/q/qemu/qemu-user-static_7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5_amd64.deb
Size: 46178812
MD5sum: 0de6936de8c5c5cf4f7b874c9e0d7471
SHA256: f4b69ac8d20d6947e3133173925af832e119477be3d1e3fa3a4011c27795451f