How to Install and Uninstall qemu-guest-agent Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "qemu-guest-agent" package

Please follow the instructions below to install qemu-guest-agent on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall qemu-guest-agent on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                qemu-guest-agent
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the qemu-guest-agent package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Package: qemu-guest-agent
Source: qemu
Version: 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2
Installed-Size: 748
Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.28), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.63.3), libudev1 (>= 183), liburing1 (>= 0.7), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
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_5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2_amd64.deb
Size: 272892
MD5sum: ee0ab0f24634820677999293fca6caa5
SHA256: aeeab571d576cd8de05ec96ccd2f150e2a0dcd7e8e66e173c548413bc58e818b