How To Install libguestfs-inspect-icons.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-inspect-icons.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. libguestfs-inspect-icons.noarch is Additional dependencies for inspecting guest icons

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-inspect-icons.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libguestfs-inspect-icons.noarch

libguestfs-inspect-icons is a metapackage that pulls in additional dependencies required by libguestfs to pull icons out of non-Linux guests. Install this package if you want libguestfs to be able to inspect non-Linux guests and display icons from them. The only reason this is a separate package is to avoid core libguestfs having to depend on Perl. See https

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

Install libguestfs-inspect-icons.noarch 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-inspect-icons.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libguestfs-inspect-icons.noarch

How To Uninstall libguestfs-inspect-icons.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libguestfs-inspect-icons.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libguestfs-inspect-icons.noarch

libguestfs-inspect-icons.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-inspect-icons.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.