How To Install libgovirt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgovirt.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libgovirt.x86_64 is A GObject library for interacting with oVirt REST API

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgovirt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libgovirt.x86_64`

libgovirt is a library that allows applications to use oVirt REST API to list VMs managed by an oVirt instance, and to get the connection parameters needed to make a SPICE/VNC connection to them.

We can use yum to install libgovirt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libgovirt.x86_64.

Install libgovirt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libgovirt.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libgovirt.x86_64

How To Uninstall libgovirt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libgovirt.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libgovirt.x86_64

libgovirt.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/GoVirt-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libgovirt.so.2
/usr/lib64/libgovirt.so.2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libgovirt-0.3.4
/usr/share/doc/libgovirt-0.3.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libgovirt-0.3.4/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libgovirt-0.3.4/MAINTAINERS
/usr/share/doc/libgovirt-0.3.4/README
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo

References

libgovirt.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgovirt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.