How To Install libvirt-admin on CentOS 8

libvirt-admin is Set of tools to control libvirt daemon

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.