How To Install libguestfs-gobject.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-gobject.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libguestfs-gobject.x86_64 is GObject bindings for libguestfs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-gobject.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libguestfs-gobject.x86_64

libguestfs-gobject contains GObject bindings for libguestfs. To develop software against these bindings, you need to install libguestfs-gobject-devel.

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

Install libguestfs-gobject.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 libguestfs-gobject.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libguestfs-gobject.x86_64

How To Uninstall libguestfs-gobject.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libguestfs-gobject.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libguestfs-gobject.x86_64

libguestfs-gobject.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Guestfs-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libguestfs-gobject-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libguestfs-gobject-1.0.so.0.0.0

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Summary

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