How To Install qemu-user on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-user
on Kali Linux.
What is qemu-user
qemu-user 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 the user mode emulation binaries. In this mode QEMU can launch Linux processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU.
If qemu-user-binfmt package is also installed, it will register binary format handlers from this qemu-user package with the kernel so it will be possible to run foreign binaries directly. However, this might not be suitable for using inside foreign chroots, in which case it is possible to use qemu-user-static package instead of qemu-user-binmft, – qemu-user-static will register statically linked binfmt handlers instead.
There are three methods to install qemu-user
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 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install qemu-user
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install qemu-user Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install qemu-user
using apt
by running the following command:
Install qemu-user 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.
After updating apt database, We can install qemu-user
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall qemu-user on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the qemu-user
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall qemu-user And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qemu-user
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove qemu-user Configurations and Data
To remove qemu-user
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove qemu-user configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qemu-user
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
qemu-user have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-user
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.