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

Last updated: May 02,2024

1. Install "qemu-user-binfmt" package

Please follow the guidance below to install qemu-user-binfmt on Kali Linux


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall qemu-user-binfmt on Kali Linux:


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

Package: qemu-user-binfmt
Source: qemu
Version: 1:8.2.1+ds-2
Installed-Size: 71
Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: qemu-user (= 1:8.2.1+ds-2)
Recommends: systemd
Conflicts: qemu-user-static
Size: 3768
SHA256: e724cd54e55b9eea9652593226715d441d7529f7c711b844dd64bd9c301820de
SHA1: 2bb56275135b5075bd83d74688220e797d4da977
MD5sum: b98509733051f9fbf539cc01efd22d6d
Description: QEMU user mode binfmt registration for qemu-user
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 binfmt support registration for the user mode
emulation binaries from qemu-user. This is an empty package, it does
not contain any additional files, only registration scripts which run
at install and remove times.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/
Section: otherosfs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/q/qemu/qemu-user-binfmt_8.2.1+ds-2_amd64.deb