How To Install qemu-system-gui on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-system-gui on Kali Linux. qemu-system-gui is QEMU full system emulation binaries (user interface and audio support)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-system-gui on Kali Linux.

What is `qemu-system-gui`

qemu-system-gui is:

This package provides local graphical user interface (currently GTK)
and audio backends for full system emulation (qemu-system-*) packages.

There are three methods to install qemu-system-gui 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-system-gui 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-gui using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install qemu-system-gui

Install qemu-system-gui Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install qemu-system-gui

Install qemu-system-gui 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-system-gui using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install qemu-system-gui

How To Uninstall qemu-system-gui on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the qemu-system-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove qemu-system-gui

Uninstall qemu-system-gui And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove qemu-system-gui

Remove qemu-system-gui Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge qemu-system-gui

Remove qemu-system-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qemu-system-gui

Dependencies

qemu-system-gui have the following dependencies:

References

qemu-system-gui website

Summary

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