Re: qemu-system-x86 dependencies

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Cc'ing Michael

On 16/8/23 13:52, Fourhundred Thecat wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install qemu-system-x86 on Debian 12.
>
> But through the dependency cascade, it wants to install sound
> infrastructure with gstreamer libraries. Which leads to absurd
> dependencies, such as:
>
>    libasound2
>    libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0
>    libopus0
>    libwayland-server0
>    libusb-1.0-0
>
> Does this madness come from Debian distribution, or from upstream?
>
> I am just trying to set up kvm/qemu to run virtual machines on a server.
>
> thank you,