How to Install and Uninstall blktap-dev Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "blktap-dev" package

Please follow the instructions below to install blktap-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "blktap-dev" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall blktap-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                blktap-dev
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the blktap-dev package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: blktap-dev
Priority: extra
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 428
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: PKG Xen Devel
Architecture: amd64
Source: blktap
Version: 2.0.90-4ubuntu1
Depends: libblktapctl0 (= 2.0.90-4ubuntu1), libvhd0 (= 2.0.90-4ubuntu1), libvhdio-2.0.90 (= 2.0.90-4ubuntu1), uuid-dev
Filename: pool/universe/b/blktap/blktap-dev_2.0.90-4ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 88892
MD5sum: 9c5d3b7596a7bbae138d4d591edf8ec7
SHA1: 9d3d6d6fa0b9c334c64dfea7199742f17e450800
SHA256: 2de7ea915496b887187db4eb6e48e346258d6b9fb9d36170c935b0f223119a41
Description-en: Xen API blktap shared library (development files)
The Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) is an open source enterprise-ready server
virtualization and cloud computing platform, delivering the Xen Hypervisor
with support for a range of guest operating systems. This package is part
of it. It implements the userland part of the blktap driver.
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Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) is a file format standard which maps logical hard disk
contents to a physical disk image format, which can then be more efficiently
stored in a variety of different storage types, such as file systems or
logical volumes.
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VHDs are container files storing block metadata alongside a virtual disk's
contents, in a single disk image. The metadata enables advanced storage
backend capabilities, such as thin provisioning, disk image snapshotting, and
coalescing of differencing disks.
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Libvhd is a library to access VHD format metadata. It provides disk image
initialization, inspection and manipulation to both VHD user utilities and
the VHD disk driver in Blktap.
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This package contains the development files
Description-md5: 9ff62a3f553ad3f22398c33f6ad89bcd
Homepage: http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu