How To Install virt-install.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

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

What is virt-install.noarch

Package includes several command line utilities, including virt-install (build and install new VMs) and virt-clone (clone an existing virtual machine).

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

Install virt-install.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 virt-install.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install virt-install.noarch

How To Uninstall virt-install.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the virt-install.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove virt-install.noarch

virt-install.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/virt-clone
/usr/bin/virt-install
/usr/bin/virt-xml
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-clone.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-install.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-xml.1.gz
/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-clone
/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-install
/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-xml

References

• virt-install.noarch website

Summary

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