How To Install qemu-img.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-img.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. qemu-img.x86_64 is QEMU command line tool for manipulating disk images

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-img.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `qemu-img.x86_64`

This package provides a command line tool for manipulating disk images

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

Install qemu-img.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 qemu-img.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qemu-img.x86_64

How To Uninstall qemu-img.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the qemu-img.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove qemu-img.x86_64

qemu-img.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/qemu-img
/usr/bin/qemu-io
/usr/bin/qemu-nbd
/usr/share/man/man1/qemu-img.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/qemu-nbd.8.gz

References

qemu-img.x86_64 website

Summary

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