How To Install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc
libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc is:
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The library aims at providing a long term stable C API for different virtualization mechanisms. It currently supports QEMU, KVM, XEN, OpenVZ, LXC, and VirtualBox.
This package contains the libvirtd connection driver for LXC.
Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc Architecture: amd64 Version: 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3 Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Source: libvirt Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Libvirt Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 394 Depends: libblkid1 (>= 2.17.2), libc6 (>= 2.14), libcap-ng0 (>= 0.7.9), libfuse2 (>= 2.8), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libvirt0 (>= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3), libvirt-daemon (= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3) Breaks: libvirt-daemon (« 5.6.0-3~) Replaces: libvirt-daemon (« 5.6.0-3~) Filename: pool/universe/libv/libvirt/libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc_6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3_amd64.deb Size: 89032 MD5sum: 13d4f0c7060a3aed2e61854eb40c298f SHA1: 63e6bd4c7023c166998930b421ee8b130a264481 SHA256: 747e426d2f39240da7fa3949758b4abdd80273ff77c7ec605de08b2ce04707fe SHA512: 8fd0f5b7bf0e4a8512d1e5817480a08b35a0e509400aede086a3fc235986813446ba6092c92f65a4c62cc3f1fb7e6200ce93462bb94608b4ce1973b98e74b8ae Homepage: https://libvirt.org/ Description-en: Virtualization daemon LXC connection driver Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The library aims at providing a long term stable C API for different virtualization mechanisms. It currently supports QEMU, KVM, XEN, OpenVZ, LXC, and VirtualBox.
This package contains the libvirtd connection driver for LXC.
Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc Architecture: amd64 Version: 6.0.0-0ubuntu8 Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Source: libvirt Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Libvirt Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 394 Depends: libblkid1 (>= 2.17.2), libc6 (>= 2.14), libcap-ng0 (>= 0.7.9), libfuse2 (>= 2.8), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libvirt0 (>= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8), libvirt-daemon (= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8) Breaks: libvirt-daemon (« 5.6.0-3~) Replaces: libvirt-daemon (« 5.6.0-3~) Filename: pool/universe/libv/libvirt/libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc_6.0.0-0ubuntu8_amd64.deb Size: 88880 MD5sum: daf9fd1351333eb66235629edbbbbdf4 SHA1: 772e25fc46b68ab3c4eff25b7e84bdad49d9d9d2 SHA256: afdb27a5d6b4a035fa77a4b3e3f5dee6941547cee25583f638a6b73e36cdcbee Homepage: https://libvirt.org/ Description-en: Virtualization daemon LXC connection driver Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The library aims at providing a long term stable C API for different virtualization mechanisms. It currently supports QEMU, KVM, XEN, OpenVZ, LXC, and VirtualBox.
This package contains the libvirtd connection driver for LXC.
There are three methods to install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc
Install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc
Install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc
How To Uninstall libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc
Uninstall libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc
Remove libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc Configurations and Data
To remove libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc
Remove libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
