How To Install libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox
libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox 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 VirtualBox.
Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox 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: 425 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libvirt0 (>= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3), libxml2 (>= 2.9.2+really2.9.1+dfsg1-0.2), 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-vbox_6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3_amd64.deb Size: 89404 MD5sum: 5b640bd5fbe0b0f89201ab72fa26fe2b SHA1: 453c3b56b35eb391a7b2c1a53b9dac44a6ad99b3 SHA256: a32a986f2494b6637b63b4a7580a226291ae8caf2ba5b486b72f2c3a3e2fa74b SHA512: fb8b4adabbda67d62df059c165385f8fafc094752eafa27efe976c75cfbae5196cb0fe8929edcaed81f103280a9c26ada18600c8791e5b29551a2aa9a6f0e2d3 Homepage: https://libvirt.org/ Description-en: Virtualization daemon VirtualBox 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 VirtualBox.
Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox 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: 425 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libvirt0 (>= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8), libxml2 (>= 2.9.2+really2.9.1+dfsg1-0.2), 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-vbox_6.0.0-0ubuntu8_amd64.deb Size: 89392 MD5sum: f41c250eb2dbd6ba398e0725b5014c8a SHA1: 9747b4581c3e3c2a485c815f4ae08067c355ef50 SHA256: b79292feeaf61bbe9e75e1ea73b09beaf5a47d18fb4de0ac3d6f4cc5c5207292 Homepage: https://libvirt.org/ Description-en: Virtualization daemon VirtualBox 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 VirtualBox.
There are three methods to install libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox 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-vbox 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-vbox using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox
Install libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox
Install libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox 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-vbox using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox
How To Uninstall libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox
Uninstall libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox 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-vbox
Remove libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox Configurations and Data
To remove libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox
Remove libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
