How To Install guestfs-tools on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install guestfs-tools on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is guestfs-tools
guestfs-tools is:
The libguestfs library allows accessing and modifying guest disk images.
This package contains the guestfish interactive shell and various virtualization tools, including virt-cat, virt-df, virt-edit, virt-filesystems, virt-inspector, virt-ls, virt-make-fs, virt-rescue, virt-resize, virt-tar, and virt-win-reg.
There are three methods to install guestfs-tools 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 guestfs-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install guestfs-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install guestfs-tools
Install guestfs-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install guestfs-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install guestfs-tools
Install guestfs-tools 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 guestfs-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install guestfs-tools
How To Uninstall guestfs-tools on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the guestfs-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove guestfs-tools
Uninstall guestfs-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall guestfs-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove guestfs-tools
Remove guestfs-tools Configurations and Data
To remove guestfs-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge guestfs-tools
Remove guestfs-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove guestfs-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge guestfs-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install guestfs-tools package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
