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Waqas
Asked: 2014-02-26 23:00:48 +0800 CST

How to completely remove virsh from Ubuntu

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How to uninstall virsh from Ubuntu 13.10 server. I have already removed libvirt-bin, qemu and kvm but virsh is still running. I used following command to remove libvirt-bin.

apt-get remove --purge libvirt-bin kvm qemu qemu-system-x86
apt-get autoremove
reboot

also tried

apt-get remove virsh

but didn't work

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package virsh

Thanks,

13.10

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    If you installed all these packages from Synaptic, then you can remove them as follows: 

    sudo apt-get purge libvirt* kvm qemu*

    If however you installed one of these packages from sources (say, virsh), then Synaptic will be of no help. You need to use make uninstall from the build directory.

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  2. binary of virsh was not getting removed with sudo make uninstall.

    #which virsh printed following binary

    /usr/bin/virsh

    Manually removing virsh binary with rm /usr/bin/virsh solved my problem. Thanks eveyone for helping

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  3. Try

    aptitude purge packagename
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