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

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libvirt-devel.x86_64 is Libraries, includes, etc. to compile with the libvirt library

Introduction

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

What is `libvirt-devel.x86_64`

Include header files & development libraries for the libvirt C library.

We can use yum to install libvirt-devel.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-devel.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libvirt-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libvirt-devel.x86_64

libvirt-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/libvirt
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-admin.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-common.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain-snapshot.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-event.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-host.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-interface.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-lxc.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-network.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-nodedev.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-nwfilter.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-qemu.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-secret.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-storage.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-stream.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt.h
/usr/include/libvirt/virterror.h
/usr/lib64/libvirt-admin.so
/usr/lib64/libvirt-lxc.so
/usr/lib64/libvirt-qemu.so
/usr/lib64/libvirt.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvirt-admin.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvirt-lxc.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvirt-qemu.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvirt.pc
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-devel-4.5.0
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-devel-4.5.0/libvirt-api.xml
/usr/share/libvirt/api
/usr/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-admin-api.xml
/usr/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-api.xml
/usr/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-lxc-api.xml
/usr/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-qemu-api.xml

References

libvirt-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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