Michael Tokarev <[email protected]> writes: > On 18.05.2026 12:25, Niels Möller wrote: > ... >> Next, I wanted qemu-user. Just running apt-get install qemu-user also >> installs the recommended qemu-user-binfmt package. Since I didn't want >> to get the binfmt magic, I instead ran apt-get install qemu-user >> qemu-user-binfmt- (note trailing -). Then apt-get decided to install >> the additional package qemu-user-binfmt:s390x, and I accepted that >> and pressed ENTER without realizing the bad consequences. > > Here's the most interesting part. Why apt (?) insisted on installing > qemu-user-binfmt? I don't think apt will do that just due to Recommends. > Is there maybe something else which *depends* on qemu-user-binfmt?
There were no complaints or additional removed packages once I managed to run apt-get remove qemu-user-binfmt:s390x, which I guess means no hard dependencies. I have done the "apt-get install qemu-user qemu-user-binfmt-" thing previously (see https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/build-images/-/blob/main/buildenv-cross/Dockerfile, producing the image used for nettle's cross build ci tests), where it has appeared to work fine. But those images were made with bookworm and are a bit dated. > Do you have old qemu-user-static package installed? The only qemu packages I have (after uninstalling the problematic binfmt package) are: $ dpkg -l 'qemu*' |grep ^i ii qemu-block-extra 1:10.0.8+ds-0+deb13u1+b2 amd64 extra block backend modules for qemu-system and qemu-utils ii qemu-system-common 1:10.0.8+ds-0+deb13u1+b2 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (common files) ii qemu-system-data 1:10.0.8+ds-0+deb13u1 all QEMU full system emulation (data files) ii qemu-system-x86 1:10.0.8+ds-0+deb13u1+b2 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (x86) ii qemu-user 1:10.0.8+ds-0+deb13u1+b2 amd64 QEMU user mode emulation (static binaries) ii qemu-utils 1:10.0.8+ds-0+deb13u1+b2 amd64 QEMU utilities I do have a bit of a mix of trixie and forky packages, including libc6-2.42.16 from forky. Not sure if that could confuse resolution. Regards, /Niels -- Niels Möller. PGP key CB4962D070D77D7FCB8BA36271D8F1FF368C6677. Internet email is subject to wholesale government surveillance.
