How To Install libguestfs-winsupport on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-winsupport
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libguestfs-winsupport
This optional package adds support for Windows guests (NTFS) to the virt-v2v and virt-p2v programs. This package also supports system compression (“Compact OS”) using the plugin from https
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libguestfs-winsupport
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libguestfs-winsupport.
Install libguestfs-winsupport 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-winsupport
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libguestfs-winsupport
Install libguestfs-winsupport 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-winsupport
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libguestfs-winsupport
How To Uninstall libguestfs-winsupport on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libguestfs-winsupport
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libguestfs-winsupport
libguestfs-winsupport Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-winsupport.tar.gz
/usr/share/doc/libguestfs-winsupport
/usr/share/doc/libguestfs-winsupport/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libguestfs-winsupport/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libguestfs-winsupport/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/libguestfs-winsupport/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libguestfs-winsupport/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libguestfs-winsupport/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-winsupport
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.