How To Install libosinfo-vala.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libosinfo-vala.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libosinfo-vala.x86_64 is Vala bindings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libosinfo-vala.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libosinfo-vala.x86_64

libosinfo is a library that allows virtualization provisioning tools to determine the optimal device settings for a hypervisor/operating system combination. This package provides the Vala bindings for libosinfo library.

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

Install libosinfo-vala.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 libosinfo-vala.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libosinfo-vala.x86_64

How To Uninstall libosinfo-vala.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libosinfo-vala.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libosinfo-vala.x86_64

libosinfo-vala.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/vala/vapi/libosinfo-1.0.vapi

References

Summary

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