How to Install and Uninstall google-compute-engine Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "google-compute-engine" package

This tutorial shows how to install google-compute-engine on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "google-compute-engine" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall google-compute-engine on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the google-compute-engine package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: google-compute-engine
Architecture: all
Version: 20210629.00-0ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Source: gce-compute-image-packages
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Daniel Watkins
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 71
Provides: irqbalance
Depends: google-compute-engine-oslogin (>> 20190801), google-guest-agent, nvme-cli
Recommends: rsyslog | system-log-daemon
Suggests: libpam-cracklib
Conflicts: gce-cloud-config, gce-compute-image-packages (<< 20191115), gce-daemon, gce-startup-scripts
Replaces: gce-cloud-config, gce-compute-image-packages (<< 20191115), gce-daemon, gce-startup-scripts
Filename: pool/main/g/gce-compute-image-packages/google-compute-engine_20210629.00-0ubuntu1_all.deb
Size: 13502
MD5sum: 567b72ec66245ea3d4c73dd074ce9b2c
SHA1: f41996b44cd0dcec4eda6733b60b9e7c8ad7dc0d
SHA256: ffd6d54a2b233904f19ca45a6bfbe43b7201fb9d32ba9186ccaa58fc15e5b0a1
SHA512: 494c0790f69af2b93d7baaf5d5ca1f93e1a36fcb952ad4bc48f51f765221d0b9c1375217bd4278e532b2f09dd0500b4b8791f413e6aeddc5c51c2ced453a1b84
Homepage: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-packages
Description-en: Google Compute Engine guest environment.
This package contains scripts and configuration files for
features specific to the Google Compute Engine cloud environment.
Description-md5: 3d02273d24f60afb7027868edacd1b20