How to Install and Uninstall google-guest-agent Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: December 28,2024

1. Install "google-guest-agent" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install google-guest-agent on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "google-guest-agent" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall google-guest-agent on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the google-guest-agent package on Kali Linux

Package: google-guest-agent
Source: google-guest-agent (20211116.00-6)
Version: 20211116.00-6+b10
Installed-Size: 20617
Maintainer: Debian Cloud Team
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: python3-google-compute-engine
Provides: python3-google-compute-engine
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Conflicts: python3-google-compute-engine
Size: 6344284
SHA256: 85532538ccc1110e7f698d64e7bdc7072aefcd947ab447dab54cd9b41137c4b6
SHA1: c21115414f50db0c0c8a45f476f1dd55ce6654ab
MD5sum: d4b0b69ea8650fcf461da7684d53081c
Description: Guest Agent for Google Compute Engine
Google Guest Agent is a daemon that enables guest features for interacting
with the host on Google Cloud Engine.
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These features include:
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* Account management based on meta-data
* Configuring OS Login against GCP
* Detecting and preventing clock skew
* Enable/disable/configure network interfaces and routes
* Set performance options for storage and network
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-agent
Built-Using: golang-1.21 (= 1.21.3-1), golang-github-go-ini-ini (= 1.55.0-1), golang-github-golang-groupcache (= 0.0~git20210331.41bb18b-1), golang-github-golang-protobuf-1-3 (= 1.3.5-4), golang-github-google-go-cmp (= 0.5.9-1), golang-github-googleapis-gax-go (= 2.0.5-4), golang-github-googlecloudplatform-guest-logging-go (= 0.0~git20210621.facc9c0-1.1), golang-github-kardianos-service (= 1.2.1-1), golang-github-tarm-serial (= 0.0+git20151113-5.1), golang-go.opencensus (= 0.24.0-1), golang-golang-x-net (= 1:0.15.0-2), golang-golang-x-oauth2 (= 0.4.0-1), golang-golang-x-sync (= 0.3.0-1), golang-golang-x-sys (= 0.12.0-1), golang-golang-x-text (= 0.13.0-1), golang-google-api (= 0.61.0-1), golang-google-cloud (= 0.56.0-3), golang-google-genproto (= 0.0~git20200413.b5235f6-3), golang-google-grpc (= 1.38.0+really1.33.3-1)
Section: golang
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/google-guest-agent/google-guest-agent_20211116.00-6+b10_amd64.deb