How To Install libvirt-dbus on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-dbus on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libvirt-dbus
libvirt-dbus 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 provides access to the libvirt API through D-Bus.
Package: libvirt-dbus Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.3.0-1 Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Libvirt Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 312 Depends: dbus, default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus, policykit-1, libvirt-daemon, libvirt-daemon-system, libc6 (>= 2.4), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.3.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.44.0), libvirt-glib-1.0-0 (>= 0.0.7), libvirt0 (>= 3.0.0), sysuser-helper (« 1.4) Filename: pool/universe/libv/libvirt-dbus/libvirt-dbus_1.3.0-1_amd64.deb Size: 58980 MD5sum: b4b9b57edddbc70f6e91d9db25d33f0f SHA1: d05b483013d25bf9abe11fac2b874c372759fa8b SHA256: 08d14c5047afe651eb3c6141f30540f18ae67827830a10df12fc087f29f79cfa Homepage: https://libvirt.org/ Description-en: libvirt D-Bus API bindings 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 provides access to the libvirt API through D-Bus.
There are three methods to install libvirt-dbus 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-dbus 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-dbus using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvirt-dbus
Install libvirt-dbus Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-dbus using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvirt-dbus
Install libvirt-dbus 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-dbus using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvirt-dbus
How To Uninstall libvirt-dbus on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libvirt-dbus package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvirt-dbus
Uninstall libvirt-dbus And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvirt-dbus and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvirt-dbus
Remove libvirt-dbus Configurations and Data
To remove libvirt-dbus configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvirt-dbus
Remove libvirt-dbus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvirt-dbus configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvirt-dbus
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-dbus package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
