How To Install virtualbricks on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install virtualbricks on Debian 9. virtualbricks is is a Virtualization suite for qemu/kvm VMs and vde2 networks

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install virtualbricks on Debian 9.

What is virtualbricks

virtualbricks is:

Virtualbricks is a fully featured virtualization suite and a complete GUI to manage Qemu/KVM and Virtual Distributed Ethernet. It provides easy but detailed device configuration interface, programmable control of the running processes and a graphical interactive view of the virtual network topology.

There are three methods to install virtualbricks 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 virtualbricks Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install virtualbricks using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install virtualbricks

Install virtualbricks Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install virtualbricks using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install virtualbricks

Install virtualbricks 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 virtualbricks using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install virtualbricks

How To Uninstall virtualbricks on Debian 9

To uninstall only the virtualbricks package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove virtualbricks

Uninstall virtualbricks And Its Dependencies

To uninstall virtualbricks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove virtualbricks

Remove virtualbricks Configurations and Data

To remove virtualbricks configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge virtualbricks

Remove virtualbricks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove virtualbricks configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge virtualbricks

Dependencies

virtualbricks have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install virtualbricks package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.