How To Install libvirt-gobject.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-gobject.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libvirt-gobject.i686 is libvirt object APIs for managing virtualization hosts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-gobject.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libvirt-gobject.i686`

This package provides APIs for managing virtualization host objects

We can use yum to install libvirt-gobject.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvirt-gobject.i686.

Install libvirt-gobject.i686 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-gobject.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvirt-gobject.i686

How To Uninstall libvirt-gobject.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libvirt-gobject.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libvirt-gobject.i686

libvirt-gobject.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/LibvirtGObject-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libvirt-gobject-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libvirt-gobject-1.0.so.0.1000.0

References

libvirt-gobject.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-gobject.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.