How To Install qemu-user-binfmt on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-user-binfmt on Kali Linux.

What is qemu-user-binfmt

qemu-user-binfmt 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 binfmt support registration for the user mode emulation binaries from qemu-user. This is an empty package, it does not contain any additional files, only registration scripts which run at install and remove times.

There are three methods to install qemu-user-binfmt on Kali Linux. 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-user-binfmt 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-user-binfmt using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install qemu-user-binfmt

Install qemu-user-binfmt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install qemu-user-binfmt using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install qemu-user-binfmt

Install qemu-user-binfmt Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install qemu-user-binfmt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install qemu-user-binfmt

How To Uninstall qemu-user-binfmt on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the qemu-user-binfmt package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove qemu-user-binfmt

Uninstall qemu-user-binfmt And Its Dependencies

To uninstall qemu-user-binfmt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove qemu-user-binfmt

Remove qemu-user-binfmt Configurations and Data

To remove qemu-user-binfmt configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge qemu-user-binfmt

Remove qemu-user-binfmt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove qemu-user-binfmt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qemu-user-binfmt

Dependencies

qemu-user-binfmt have the following dependencies:

• qemu-user

References

• qemu-user-binfmt website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-user-binfmt package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.