How To Install gnome-boxes on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-boxes on Ubuntu 20.04. gnome-boxes is Simple GNOME app to access remote or virtual systems Simple GNOME app to access remote or virtual systems Simple GNOME app to access remote or virtual systems

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-boxes on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is gnome-boxes

gnome-boxes is:

GNOME Boxes is a desktop client to view or use local virtual machines, remote physical machines, or remote virtual machines. Boxes is intentionally simple and easy to use.

Hardware virtualization is required to use local virtual machines.

Package: gnome-boxes Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.3-0ubuntu1.1 Priority: optional Section: universe/gnome Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 4456 Depends: genisoimage, libosinfo-bin, libvirt-daemon, tracker (>= 2.0), dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libarchive13 (>= 3.1.2), libc6 (>= 2.7), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libfreerdp2-2 (>= 2.0.0~git20160317.1.75ae3f5+dfsg1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.25.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.52.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.22.20), libgtk-vnc-2.0-0 (>= 0.5.1), libgudev-1.0-0 (>= 165), libosinfo-1.0-0 (>= 1.7.1~), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsecret-1-0 (>= 0.7), libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.44), libspice-client-glib-2.0-8 (>= 0.35), libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5 (>= 0.32), libtracker-sparql-2.0-0 (>= 0.10.0), libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.8), libvirt-glib-1.0-0 (>= 3.0.0), libvte-2.91-0 (>= 0.40.2), libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (>= 2.15.90), libwinpr2-2 (>= 2.0.0~git20160317.1.75ae3f5+dfsg1), libxml2 (>= 2.7.8) Recommends: qemu-system-x86 Breaks: libspice-server1 (« 0.12.5-1.1~) Filename: pool/universe/g/gnome-boxes/gnome-boxes_3.36.3-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb Size: 685904 MD5sum: 8ca84d76e71dab4981ebabb37e63b879 SHA1: bec850ee81e54362421f48a061faf3fc1da554d2 SHA256: 7a22378abc501843f9289c75ae3f2eb6844136589904dd05e76ab11f0ec7775d SHA512: c40eec870055099d8aeb8c2d9036e091d35aece6bcbb9b0ff6d09d590026174b8341c58a3ad1c60180c5fe34d83162943223a5e1f75c9fd4bfba87520386b5a5 Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes Description-en: Simple GNOME app to access remote or virtual systems GNOME Boxes is a desktop client to view or use local virtual machines, remote physical machines, or remote virtual machines. Boxes is intentionally simple and easy to use.

Hardware virtualization is required to use local virtual machines.

Package: gnome-boxes Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.2-1 Priority: optional Section: universe/gnome Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 4456 Depends: genisoimage, libosinfo-bin, libvirt-daemon, tracker (>= 2.0), dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libarchive13 (>= 3.1.2), libc6 (>= 2.7), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libfreerdp2-2 (>= 2.0.0~git20160317.1.75ae3f5+dfsg1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.25.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.52.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.22.20), libgtk-vnc-2.0-0 (>= 0.5.1), libgudev-1.0-0 (>= 165), libosinfo-1.0-0 (>= 1.7.1~), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsecret-1-0 (>= 0.7), libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.44), libspice-client-glib-2.0-8 (>= 0.35), libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5 (>= 0.32), libtracker-sparql-2.0-0 (>= 0.10.0), libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.8), libvirt-glib-1.0-0 (>= 3.0.0), libvte-2.91-0 (>= 0.40.2), libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (>= 2.15.90), libwinpr2-2 (>= 2.0.0~git20160317.1.75ae3f5+dfsg1), libxml2 (>= 2.7.8) Recommends: qemu-system-x86 Breaks: libspice-server1 (« 0.12.5-1.1~) Filename: pool/universe/g/gnome-boxes/gnome-boxes_3.36.2-1_amd64.deb Size: 686244 MD5sum: bb0f907bfa4ccbb95990fa1e582d4e60 SHA1: 6c2d30e11f803bc3fb0c49c8235039a43cf1be33 SHA256: 53f9efd23aeda63e6fda13a83a579e6a6774fc17c086c22e0544c7d8edeea6fd Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes Description-en: Simple GNOME app to access remote or virtual systems GNOME Boxes is a desktop client to view or use local virtual machines, remote physical machines, or remote virtual machines. Boxes is intentionally simple and easy to use.

Hardware virtualization is required to use local virtual machines.

There are three methods to install gnome-boxes 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 gnome-boxes Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-boxes

Install gnome-boxes Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gnome-boxes

Install gnome-boxes 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 gnome-boxes using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gnome-boxes

How To Uninstall gnome-boxes on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the gnome-boxes package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gnome-boxes

Uninstall gnome-boxes And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gnome-boxes and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-boxes

Remove gnome-boxes Configurations and Data

To remove gnome-boxes configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-boxes

Remove gnome-boxes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-boxes

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-boxes package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.