How To Install qemu-block-extra on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-block-extra on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is qemu-block-extra
qemu-block-extra is:
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 extra block device backend modules for qemu-system emulation and qemu-img from qemu-utils package, which are rarely used and has extra dependencies.
Package: qemu-block-extra Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:4.2-3ubuntu6 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: otherosfs Source: qemu Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 278 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.16.3), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libiscsi7 (>= 1.18.0), librados2 (>= 0.72.2), librbd1 (>= 12.0.3), libssh-4 (>= 0.8.4) Enhances: qemu-system-arm, qemu-system-mips, qemu-system-misc, qemu-system-sparc, qemu-system-x86, qemu-utils Filename: pool/main/q/qemu/qemu-block-extra_4.2-3ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 56476 MD5sum: 118e3908f38001f77ef238abaa04392a SHA1: 43c55f1229e21561326c829efe32a272be579347 SHA256: 5d46bcc46628e0f24319415eecc3597381894c60ac29007edb1451a7a2d24079 Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/ Description-en: extra block backend modules for qemu-system and qemu-utils 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 extra block device backend modules for qemu-system emulation and qemu-img from qemu-utils package, which are rarely used and has extra dependencies.
There are three methods to install qemu-block-extra on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install qemu-block-extra Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install qemu-block-extra using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install qemu-block-extra
Install qemu-block-extra Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install qemu-block-extra using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install qemu-block-extra
Install qemu-block-extra 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 qemu-block-extra using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install qemu-block-extra
How To Uninstall qemu-block-extra on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the qemu-block-extra package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove qemu-block-extra
Uninstall qemu-block-extra And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qemu-block-extra and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove qemu-block-extra
Remove qemu-block-extra Configurations and Data
To remove qemu-block-extra configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge qemu-block-extra
Remove qemu-block-extra configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qemu-block-extra configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qemu-block-extra
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-block-extra package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
