How To Install blktap-utils on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install blktap-utils on Debian 9.
What is blktap-utils
blktap-utils is:
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.
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.
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.
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.
There are three methods to install blktap-utils on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install blktap-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install blktap-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install blktap-utils
Install blktap-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install blktap-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install blktap-utils
Install blktap-utils Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install blktap-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install blktap-utils
How To Uninstall blktap-utils on Debian 9
To uninstall only the blktap-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove blktap-utils
Uninstall blktap-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall blktap-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove blktap-utils
Remove blktap-utils Configurations and Data
To remove blktap-utils configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge blktap-utils
Remove blktap-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove blktap-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge blktap-utils
Dependencies
blktap-utils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install blktap-utils package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
