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

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-xfs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libguestfs-xfs.x86_64 is XFS support for libguestfs

Introduction

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

What is `libguestfs-xfs.x86_64`

This adds XFS support to libguestfs. Install it if you want to process disk images containing XFS.

We can use yum to install libguestfs-xfs.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-xfs.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libguestfs-xfs.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libguestfs-xfs.x86_64

libguestfs-xfs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-packages-xfs

References

libguestfs-xfs.x86_64 website

Summary

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