How To Install python-libguestfs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-libguestfs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. python-libguestfs.x86_64 is Python bindings for libguestfs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-libguestfs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `python-libguestfs.x86_64`

python-libguestfs contains Python bindings for libguestfs.

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

Install python-libguestfs.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 python-libguestfs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python-libguestfs.x86_64

How To Uninstall python-libguestfs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the python-libguestfs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove python-libguestfs.x86_64

python-libguestfs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/guestfs.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/guestfs.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/guestfs.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libguestfsmod.so
/usr/share/doc/python-libguestfs-1.36.10
/usr/share/doc/python-libguestfs-1.36.10/create_disk.py
/usr/share/doc/python-libguestfs-1.36.10/inspect_vm.py
/usr/share/man/man3/guestfs-python.3.gz

References

python-libguestfs.x86_64 website

Summary

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