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Leo Zerino
Asked: 2019-05-18 14:33:43 +0800 CST

Installed Qemu 4.0 but version 2.11 still shows in terminal

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I installed qemu using apt and got version 2.11. Decided to use a more recent version and downloaded the source for 4.0. Removed apt version with a:

apt remove qemu

successfully compiled version 4.0, but running "--version" results in version 2.11:

$ qemu-system-x86_64 --version
QEMU emulator version 2.11.1(Debian 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.13)
Copyright (c) 2003-2017 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers

have I removed it wrongly? will I have to compile it again? It took so much time...

compiling apt qemu

2 Answers

  1. Qemu packaging is split up into many pieces for better dependency management. The system emulation binaries are in qemu-system-x86. So if you want to get rid of that binary this is the package to remove.

    You can always check which package a binary belongs to with dpkg:

    $ dpkg -S qemu-system-x86_64
qemu-kvm: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64-spice
qemu-system-x86: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
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  2. Best Answer

    As I'm new to compiling programs, I didn't know I had to make install after make to put the binaries in /bin.

    After running it, I got the 4.0.0 version in my $PATH

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