How To Install libvirt-java.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-java.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. libvirt-java.noarch is Java bindings for the libvirt virtualization API

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-java.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libvirt-java.noarch`

Libvirt-java is a base framework allowing to use libvirt, the virtualization API though the Java programming language. It requires libvirt-client >= 0.9.12

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

Install libvirt-java.noarch 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-java.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvirt-java.noarch

How To Uninstall libvirt-java.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libvirt-java.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libvirt-java.noarch

libvirt-java.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/libvirt-java-0.4.9
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-java-0.4.9/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-java-0.4.9/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-java-0.4.9/LICENCE
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-java-0.4.9/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-java-0.4.9/README
/usr/share/java/libvirt-0.4.9.jar
/usr/share/java/libvirt.jar

References

libvirt-java.noarch website

Summary

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