How To Install libvirt-daemon-system-systemd on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-system-systemd
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libvirt-daemon-system-systemd
libvirt-daemon-system-systemd 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 dependencies to make libvirt work with systemd. (this is the default). This package is useless without the libvirt-daemon-system package installed.
There are three methods to install libvirt-daemon-system-systemd
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-system-systemd 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-system-systemd
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvirt-daemon-system-systemd
Install libvirt-daemon-system-systemd Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-daemon-system-systemd
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvirt-daemon-system-systemd
Install libvirt-daemon-system-systemd 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-system-systemd
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvirt-daemon-system-systemd
How To Uninstall libvirt-daemon-system-systemd on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libvirt-daemon-system-systemd
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvirt-daemon-system-systemd
Uninstall libvirt-daemon-system-systemd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvirt-daemon-system-systemd
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-system-systemd
Remove libvirt-daemon-system-systemd Configurations and Data
To remove libvirt-daemon-system-systemd
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvirt-daemon-system-systemd
Remove libvirt-daemon-system-systemd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvirt-daemon-system-systemd
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvirt-daemon-system-systemd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-system-systemd
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.