How To Install libvirt-admin.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-admin.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libvirt-admin.x86_64 is Set of tools to control libvirt daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-admin.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libvirt-admin.x86_64`

The client side utilities to control the libvirt daemon.

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

Install libvirt-admin.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 libvirt-admin.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvirt-admin.x86_64

How To Uninstall libvirt-admin.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libvirt-admin.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libvirt-admin.x86_64

libvirt-admin.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/virt-admin
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/virt-admin
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-admin.1.gz

References

libvirt-admin.x86_64 website

Summary

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