How To Install libvirt-admin on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-admin on CentOS 8.
What is libvirt-admin
The client side utilities to control the libvirt daemon.
We can use yum or dnf to install libvirt-admin on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvirt-admin.
Install libvirt-admin on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install libvirt-admin using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libvirt-admin
Install libvirt-admin on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install libvirt-admin using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libvirt-admin
How To Uninstall libvirt-admin on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the libvirt-admin package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libvirt-admin
libvirt-admin Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/virt-admin
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/81727d8792f4a3aa118325b19edbf26847df80
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/virt-admin
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-admin.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-admin on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.