How To Install qemu-system-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-system-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is qemu-system-common
qemu-system-common 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 common files needed for target-specific full system emulation (qemu-system-*) packages.
Package: qemu-system-common Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:4.2-3ubuntu6 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: misc 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: 3661 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.28), libcap-ng0 (>= 0.7.9), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libgbm1 (>= 12.0.0~0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.1), libgnutls30 (>= 3.6.12), libnettle7, libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.19.6), libvirglrenderer1 (>= 0.8.2), qemu-block-extra (= 1:4.2-3ubuntu6), acl Breaks: qemu-system-data (« 1:3.1+dfsg-1~), qemu-utils (« 1:4.2-1ubuntu1~) Replaces: qemu-system-data (« 1:3.1+dfsg-1~), qemu-utils (« 1:4.2-1ubuntu1~) Filename: pool/main/q/qemu/qemu-system-common_4.2-3ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 1054360 MD5sum: 4bcff531d169f6611efb982efef740c6 SHA1: 95d594e31f5cf1914dfbf0f64efeaf639760695f SHA256: 1b96f427585215e75554666cb714640c4de3970587e9ef55479d41a2a683b29f Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/ Description-en: QEMU full system emulation binaries (common files) 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 common files needed for target-specific full system emulation (qemu-system-*) packages.
There are three methods to install qemu-system-common 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-system-common 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-system-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install qemu-system-common
Install qemu-system-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install qemu-system-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install qemu-system-common
Install qemu-system-common 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-system-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install qemu-system-common
How To Uninstall qemu-system-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the qemu-system-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove qemu-system-common
Uninstall qemu-system-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qemu-system-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove qemu-system-common
Remove qemu-system-common Configurations and Data
To remove qemu-system-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge qemu-system-common
Remove qemu-system-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qemu-system-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qemu-system-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-system-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
