How to Install and Uninstall qemu-user-binfmt Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 11,2024

1. Install "qemu-user-binfmt" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install qemu-user-binfmt on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "qemu-user-binfmt" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall qemu-user-binfmt on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 qemu-user-binfmt package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: qemu-user-binfmt
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/otherosfs
Source: qemu
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 20
Depends: qemu-user (= 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51), binfmt-support
Conflicts: qemu-user-static
Filename: pool/universe/q/qemu/qemu-user-binfmt_2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51_amd64.deb
Size: 2644
MD5sum: 857a9af1955720e811d0305662fde02e
SHA1: b9055abf71f2d9207ef8f0ecd355a4a7cbcfc42d
SHA256: bc0be754a344a54fe095711f3d59c2dd800547bdc10e3618b16d477e29106f43
SHA512: eeca89bf34b7e77dcf9f4376f02b117b677fa99f3a0b0d641f829848e82351edbf6fb62cea60132a2c1fc4ff13c1af3dc6b945b235866c85f3f922bb17d638b2
Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/
Description-en: QEMU user mode binfmt registration for qemu-user
QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports
ARM, CRIS, i386, M68k (ColdFire), MicroBlaze, MIPS, PowerPC, SH4,
SPARC and x86-64 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves
reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs.
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This package provides binfmt support registration for the user mode
emulation binaries from qemu-user. This is an empty package, it does
not contain any additional files, only registration scripts which run
at install and remove times.
Description-md5: b9d172841422ce933839d1a34cce7b20

Package: qemu-user-binfmt
Priority: optional
Section: universe/otherosfs
Installed-Size: 20
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team
Architecture: amd64
Source: qemu
Version: 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10
Depends: qemu-user (= 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10), binfmt-support
Conflicts: qemu-user-static
Filename: pool/universe/q/qemu/qemu-user-binfmt_2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10_amd64.deb
Size: 2630
MD5sum: da458a22a77dc3620c1a2b60d92e7ea9
SHA1: f1496c53968904d5fd859e8a4735b57b8f2461d8
SHA256: 1e76741c9b306d9bbbf91948a56e83cd4260fd4c703d519aa36736f94d2c2532
Description-en: QEMU user mode binfmt registration for qemu-user
QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports
ARM, CRIS, i386, M68k (ColdFire), MicroBlaze, MIPS, PowerPC, SH4,
SPARC and x86-64 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves
reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs.
.
This package provides binfmt support registration for the user mode
emulation binaries from qemu-user. This is an empty package, it does
not contain any additional files, only registration scripts which run
at install and remove times.
Description-md5: b9d172841422ce933839d1a34cce7b20
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu