How To Install libvirt-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-doc on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libvirt-doc
libvirt-doc 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 documentation.
Package: libvirt-doc Architecture: all Version: 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3 Priority: optional Section: devel 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: 8921 Filename: pool/main/libv/libvirt/libvirt-doc_6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3_all.deb Size: 1941464 MD5sum: 787a0a03cf7b7ed8c57aac0dab09f13a SHA1: 4ba08f95c08c029cb1d5ce3eec724246ff626442 SHA256: ab61a53f31fe1b4d495435eaa7837cf6a4becc23491cf2a3a1872eb07e06b7fd SHA512: c78868d777ee0516393898d6927cb91a52d111e4ea905153968a200fd2b52d5d89954bfe1956b0743949d4074ef1599692ba00c202584cf998e1c82c72b51c82 Homepage: https://libvirt.org/ Description-en: documentation for the libvirt library 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 documentation.
Package: libvirt-doc Architecture: all Version: 6.0.0-0ubuntu8 Priority: optional Section: devel 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: 8921 Filename: pool/main/libv/libvirt/libvirt-doc_6.0.0-0ubuntu8_all.deb Size: 1945456 MD5sum: d74707ccc74525e662a2bd548d6e8a15 SHA1: f78e1d442c5896eac28003cbe8e24d6194155fc8 SHA256: f270ac6425f27cebe0a54bec22139a27124a1183b348d4dfeeb4a65dab9eb145 Homepage: https://libvirt.org/ Description-en: documentation for the libvirt library 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 documentation.
There are three methods to install libvirt-doc 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-doc 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-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvirt-doc
Install libvirt-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvirt-doc
Install libvirt-doc 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-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvirt-doc
How To Uninstall libvirt-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libvirt-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvirt-doc
Uninstall libvirt-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvirt-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvirt-doc
Remove libvirt-doc Configurations and Data
To remove libvirt-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvirt-doc
Remove libvirt-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvirt-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvirt-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-doc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
