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

Last updated: April 30,2024

1. Install "open-vm-tools-desktop" package

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


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall open-vm-tools-desktop on Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu):


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

Package: open-vm-tools-desktop
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2:12.1.0-1
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Source: open-vm-tools
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 496
Depends: systemd | systemd-tmpfiles, libatkmm-1.6-1v5 (>= 2.28.2), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcairomm-1.0-1v5 (>= 1.12.0), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.3), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libglibmm-2.4-1v5 (>= 2.66.4), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.19.12), libgtkmm-3.0-1v5 (>= 3.24.6), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libsigc++-2.0-0v5 (>= 2.8.0), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libtirpc3 (>= 1.0.2), libudev1 (>= 183), libx11-6 (>= 2:1.4.99.1), libxext6, libxi6, libxinerama1 (>= 2:1.1.4), libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0), libxtst6, open-vm-tools (= 2:12.1.0-1), fuse3, kmod
Recommends: xauth, xserver-xorg-video-vmware
Suggests: xdg-utils
Filename: pool/main/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-desktop_12.1.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 133122
MD5sum: 152b0d79890654632a488583d506bfc4
SHA1: 83b15d27f14df19d46e5d105625330fb6461d744
SHA256: 61b0a1308f4f5953b5d32f701eb1753203be7396538d0e9c44a3a09c77e71858
SHA512: 1af8d6188e651c4fe6c9cf155a7b29e89c64d06cbd6efc72a2d3def923fe55158db8ceb95eac058376d6ad5c8fcfcfae7a3b817f3d0c44996e2ddde48f514ef0
Homepage: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
Description: Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (GUI)
Description-md5: 0a75baf603aed1d261cb9d62936d3c0d
Modaliases: vmwgfx(pci:v000015ADd00000405sv*sd*bc*sc*i*)