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

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-gobject.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libvirt-gobject.x86_64 is libvirt object APIs for managing virtualization hosts

Introduction

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

What is `libvirt-gobject.x86_64`

This package provides APIs for managing virtualization host objects

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

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

sudo yum -y install libvirt-gobject.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libvirt-gobject.x86_64

libvirt-gobject.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/LibvirtGObject-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libvirt-gobject-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libvirt-gobject-1.0.so.0.1000.0

References

libvirt-gobject.x86_64 website

Summary

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