How To Install libguestfs-rsync on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-rsync on Rocky Linux 8. libguestfs-rsync is rsync support for libguestfs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-rsync on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libguestfs-rsync

This adds rsync support to libguestfs. Install it if you want to use rsync to upload or download files into disk images.

We can use yum or dnf to install libguestfs-rsync on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libguestfs-rsync.

Install libguestfs-rsync on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libguestfs-rsync using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libguestfs-rsync

Install libguestfs-rsync on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libguestfs-rsync using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libguestfs-rsync

How To Uninstall libguestfs-rsync on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libguestfs-rsync package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libguestfs-rsync

libguestfs-rsync Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-packages-rsync

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-rsync on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.