How To Install libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox
on Ubuntu 22.04.
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.
There are three methods to install libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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 22.04
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 22.04, 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 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.