How to Install and Uninstall google-guest-agent Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 06,2024

1. Install "google-guest-agent" package

This tutorial shows how to install google-guest-agent on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall google-guest-agent on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 google-guest-agent package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: google-guest-agent
Architecture: amd64
Version: 20210629.00-0ubuntu1
Built-Using: golang-1.16 (= 1.16.5-1ubuntu1)
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 20151
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.32)
Breaks: gce-compute-image-packages (<< 20191115), python3-google-compute-engine
Replaces: gce-compute-image-packages (<< 20191115)
Filename: pool/main/g/google-guest-agent/google-guest-agent_20210629.00-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 6194560
MD5sum: d5deabfe2f0aa76e9a7ac9f39c8db0a0
SHA1: 0935b38638848800512fe6bf61a4bebfd48a111a
SHA256: 6745fb31433f9b6f8b14f5215b446a2aeb9f8c4e8b22973d0403e5f0b98d363e
SHA512: d1978fbbf8c4d0808f19e604ec95339cb859934f293a2bc369b082bd75bbc3209bf2d1af305b1f1e44c827d1ee34ee15fa249c6f5b998eb9ff40863583b3c91a
Homepage: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-agent
Description-en: Google Compute Engine Guest Agent
Contains the guest agent and metadata script runner binaries.
Description-md5: 631281603d95decc0c24b058cbfb142f