How to Install and Uninstall qemu-system-x86 Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: May 08,2024

1. Install "qemu-system-x86" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install qemu-system-x86 on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall qemu-system-x86 on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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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 11 (Bullseye)

Package: qemu-system-x86
Source: qemu
Version: 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2
Installed-Size: 34246
Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: qemu-kvm
Provides: qemu-kvm, qemu-system-i386, qemu-system-x86-64
Depends: libaio1 (>= 0.3.93), libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libbrlapi0.8 (>= 6.3+dfsg), libc6 (>= 2.29), libcacard0 (>= 2.2), libcapstone4 (>= 4), libepoxy0 (>= 1.3), libfdt1 (>= 1.6.0), libgbm1 (>= 7.11~1), libgcc-s1 (>= 4.7), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.39.4), libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.0), libibverbs1 (>= 28), libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1), libncursesw6 (>= 6), 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 (>= 2.1.27+dfsg), libseccomp2 (>= 2.1.0), libslirp0 (>= 4.0.0), libspice-server1 (>= 0.14.2), libtinfo6 (>= 6), libudev1 (>= 183), liburing1 (>= 0.7), libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.23~), libusbredirparser1 (>= 0.6), libvdeplug2 (>= 4.0.1), libvirglrenderer1 (>= 0.8.0), libxendevicemodel1, libxenevtchn1, libxenforeignmemory1, libxengnttab1, libxenmisc4.14, libxenstore3.0 (>= 4.2~), libxentoolcore1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0), qemu-system-common (>> 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2~), qemu-system-data (>> 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2~), seabios (>= 1.10.2-1~), ipxe-qemu (>= 1.0.0+git-20131111.c3d1e78-1~)
Recommends: qemu-system-gui (= 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2), qemu-utils, ovmf
Suggests: samba, vde2, qemu-block-extra (= 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2), sgabios
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_5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2_amd64.deb
Size: 8272740
MD5sum: a8866fdbb276aae850ab9abc930c2a16
SHA256: 1f619a0bd3a528f52bdbc3ea3ea076275f8e535818b88f94636d923353d15e8e