How to Install and Uninstall qemu-user Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "qemu-user" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install qemu-user on Kali Linux


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall qemu-user on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                qemu-user
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the qemu-user package on Kali Linux

Package: qemu-user
Source: qemu
Version: 1:8.2.1+ds-2
Installed-Size: 93760
Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libcapstone4 (>= 4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.62.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: qemu-user-binfmt
Size: 11072804
SHA256: 19fcade4169887a2123165bfd203cf9055cc652a45bf2f957ef1eadf1b083705
SHA1: 906f4aa061b024aaa5805010ebd3d7fda72c85a1
MD5sum: 44a5151626424f15b546fa66644ab4d6
Description: QEMU user mode emulation binaries
QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports Alpha, ARM,
CRIS, i386, LoongArch, M68k (ColdFire), MicroBlaze, MIPS, PowerPC, RISC-V,
S390x, SH4, SPARC, x86-64, Xtensa and other emulations. By using dynamic
translation it achieves reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host
CPUs.
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This package provides the user mode emulation binaries. In this mode
QEMU can launch Linux processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU.
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If qemu-user-binfmt package is also installed, it will register binary
format handlers from this qemu-user package with the kernel so it will
be possible to run foreign binaries directly. However, this might not
be suitable for using inside foreign chroots, in which case it is
possible to use qemu-user-static package instead of qemu-user-binmft, --
qemu-user-static will register statically linked binfmt handlers instead.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/
Tag: admin::kernel, admin::virtualization, devel::lang:c, devel::lang:python,
devel::library, implemented-in::c, implemented-in::python,
interface::commandline, role::devel-lib, role::program,
scope::application, suite::openstack, system::cloud, system::virtual
Section: otherosfs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/q/qemu/qemu-user_8.2.1+ds-2_amd64.deb