How To Install libvirt-daemon-system on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-system on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libvirt-daemon-system
libvirt-daemon-system 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 configuration files to run the libvirt daemon as a system service.
Package: libvirt-daemon-system Architecture: amd64 Version: 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3 Priority: optional Section: 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: 521 Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.4), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libvirt0 (>= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3), libxml2 (>= 2.9.2+really2.9.1+dfsg1-0.2), adduser, gettext-base, libvirt-clients (= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3), libvirt-daemon (= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3), libvirt-daemon-system-systemd | libvirt-daemon-system-sysv, iptables (>= 1.8.1-1) | firewalld, logrotate, policykit-1 Recommends: dmidecode, dnsmasq-base (>= 2.46-1), iproute2, parted Suggests: apparmor, auditd, nfs-common, open-iscsi, pm-utils, radvd, systemd, systemtap, zfsutils Breaks: systemd-sysv (« 224-1~) Filename: pool/main/libv/libvirt/libvirt-daemon-system_6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3_amd64.deb Size: 67536 MD5sum: 20996bf56d4e04c1ed779c943931b907 SHA1: e0b04819f2e44694563e66a78a2a6f9f4a1a2c2f SHA256: 7761b73287c22f82cc7c95dcd637a3032cc570c0787c3d226fc3dd26e2515ae3 SHA512: 5203d2f3b8311d95a6fc99841980a7470e0594d11c308d15dbf66b20df68cbb8c3cd2399a68b82c0de78db5229ba4037f8412eb78d4affe37dd9958e0398ab19 Homepage: https://libvirt.org/ Description-en: Libvirt daemon configuration files 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 configuration files to run the libvirt daemon as a system service.
Package: libvirt-daemon-system Architecture: amd64 Version: 6.0.0-0ubuntu8 Priority: optional Section: 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: 521 Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.4), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libvirt0 (>= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8), libxml2 (>= 2.9.2+really2.9.1+dfsg1-0.2), adduser, gettext-base, libvirt-clients (= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8), libvirt-daemon (= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8), libvirt-daemon-system-systemd | libvirt-daemon-system-sysv, iptables (>= 1.8.1-1) | firewalld, logrotate, policykit-1 Recommends: dmidecode, dnsmasq-base (>= 2.46-1), iproute2, parted Suggests: apparmor, auditd, nfs-common, open-iscsi, pm-utils, radvd, systemd, systemtap, zfsutils Breaks: systemd-sysv (« 224-1~) Filename: pool/main/libv/libvirt/libvirt-daemon-system_6.0.0-0ubuntu8_amd64.deb Size: 67500 MD5sum: bb3b7e73930972215341d23d09406b5d SHA1: 0fae994003f5408a3abbd568a6a352fb0e9fad92 SHA256: 39deb559ea604cb7b876f0069f652eb76ba0c36354d3edb03bde9d17e2e4b889 Homepage: https://libvirt.org/ Description-en: Libvirt daemon configuration files 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 configuration files to run the libvirt daemon as a system service.
There are three methods to install libvirt-daemon-system 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-system 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvirt-daemon-system
Install libvirt-daemon-system Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-daemon-system using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvirt-daemon-system
Install libvirt-daemon-system 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvirt-daemon-system
How To Uninstall libvirt-daemon-system on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libvirt-daemon-system package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvirt-daemon-system
Uninstall libvirt-daemon-system And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvirt-daemon-system 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-system
Remove libvirt-daemon-system Configurations and Data
To remove libvirt-daemon-system configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvirt-daemon-system
Remove libvirt-daemon-system configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvirt-daemon-system configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvirt-daemon-system
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-system package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
