How To Install guestfish on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install guestfish
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is guestfish
guestfish is:
The libguestfs library allows accessing and modifying guest disk images.
This package contains guestfish, the interactive shell, and some small tools that are built around it.
There are three methods to install guestfish
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install guestfish Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install guestfish
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install guestfish
Install guestfish Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install guestfish
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install guestfish
Install guestfish 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install guestfish
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install guestfish
How To Uninstall guestfish on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the guestfish
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove guestfish
Uninstall guestfish And Its Dependencies
To uninstall guestfish
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove guestfish
Remove guestfish Configurations and Data
To remove guestfish
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge guestfish
Remove guestfish configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove guestfish
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge guestfish
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install guestfish
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.