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

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "blktap-utils" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install blktap-utils on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "blktap-utils" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall blktap-utils on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: blktap-utils
Priority: extra
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 318
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: PKG Xen Devel
Architecture: amd64
Source: blktap
Version: 2.0.90-4ubuntu1
Depends: blktap-dkms, libblktapctl0 (= 2.0.90-4ubuntu1), libvhd0 (= 2.0.90-4ubuntu1), libvhdio-2.0.90 (= 2.0.90-4ubuntu1), libaio1 (>= 0.3.93), libc6 (>= 2.15), libuuid1 (>= 2.16)
Filename: pool/universe/b/blktap/blktap-utils_2.0.90-4ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 97352
MD5sum: 57baa2c288dbce16a49dc70ac28eab06
SHA1: 9a6190937b02f28178a1694c70e630d14f3f4f2b
SHA256: 89586b31be3bb8966e7b7b3021cf9a97e0273712660a0b584b7e54e9a698b0a9
Description-en: utilities to work with VHD disk images 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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This package contains user utilities to inspect, test, and manipulate
Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) images through libvhd, and the control utilities
needed to create destroy and manipulate devices ('tap-ctl'), the 'tapdisk'
driver program to perform tap devices I/O, and a number of image drivers.
Description-md5: b249f75cd723effd4c01c1477fbc0a9e
Homepage: http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu