How to Install and Uninstall virt-viewer Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "virt-viewer" package

This tutorial shows how to install virt-viewer on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                virt-viewer
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "virt-viewer" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall virt-viewer on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: virt-viewer
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 1965
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Libvirt Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.0-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.41.1), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0), libgtk-vnc-2.0-0 (>= 0.3.10), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libspice-client-glib-2.0-8 (>= 0.25), libspice-client-gtk-3.0-4 (>= 0.22), libvirt0 (>= 1.2.8-0ubuntu11), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
Suggests: netcat
Filename: pool/universe/v/virt-viewer/virt-viewer_1.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 193028
MD5sum: 8534dcf7a7acc3ad013b0cfb9250e74c
SHA1: 54fd0145e7819836745bf3667ecdb2206101a026
SHA256: ea90122cafaa2f7764f10a3b22579fd200c21d044d251a76f4f3eee68d790327
Description-en: Displaying the graphical console of a virtual machine
The console is accessed using the VNC protocol. The guest can be referred to
based on its name, ID, or UUID. If the guest is not already running, then the
viewer can be told to wait until is starts before attempting to connect to the
console The viewer can connect to remote hosts to lookup the console
information and then also connect to the remote console using the same network
transport.
Description-md5: e16e1627084d7f92c6d60ac5bf3a0fe3
Homepage: http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu