How to Install and Uninstall open-vm-tools Package on Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu)

Last updated: November 22,2024

1. Install "open-vm-tools" package

This is a short guide on how to install open-vm-tools on Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "open-vm-tools" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall open-vm-tools on Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu):


    
        
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                open-vm-tools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the open-vm-tools package on Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu)

Package: open-vm-tools
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2:12.1.0-1
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 3055
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.3), libfuse3-3 (>= 3.2.3), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libmspack0 (>= 0.4), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libtirpc3 (>= 1.0.2), libudev1 (>= 183), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libxmlsec1 (>= 1.2.34), libxmlsec1-openssl (>= 1.2.34), pciutils, iproute2, lsb-release
Recommends: ethtool, zerofree, fuse3
Suggests: open-vm-tools-desktop, cloud-init, open-vm-tools-containerinfo, open-vm-tools-salt-minion
Filename: pool/main/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_12.1.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 711920
MD5sum: e18d9d25723f17038707c58371f615ae
SHA1: 0d8f9494af2f8e303c45d8866a84df49aacc8f3b
SHA256: 0204e1e99a0052f31493d80e42f9417cc6a8858c6d7269b0ee5ef93dc20d6253
SHA512: f635d3a55b0fa921d2b50f9c2e3bc11396d83a4aeb7c72e1baf3a5f793bb2912b0791b062c232a151eefc3ef7dee9849b64c859feb331dead754cb4ef4d5b02a
Homepage: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
Description: Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (CLI)
Description-md5: a6ea22fad449711c4296720ce1ebe6b4
Task: cloud-image, server, ubuntu-server-raspi