How To Install qemu-kvm-block-curl on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-kvm-block-curl
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is qemu-kvm-block-curl
This package provides the additional CURL block driver for QEMU. Install this package if you want to access remote disks over http, https, ftp and other transports provided by the CURL library.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install qemu-kvm-block-curl
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qemu-kvm-block-curl.
Install qemu-kvm-block-curl on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install qemu-kvm-block-curl
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qemu-kvm-block-curl
Install qemu-kvm-block-curl on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install qemu-kvm-block-curl
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qemu-kvm-block-curl
How To Uninstall qemu-kvm-block-curl on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the qemu-kvm-block-curl
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qemu-kvm-block-curl
qemu-kvm-block-curl Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/22cd75a78060ad40237943cc56dd36d3e2e0ef
/usr/lib64/qemu-kvm/block-curl.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-kvm-block-curl
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.