How To Install libvirt-dbus on CentOS 8

libvirt-dbus is libvirt D-Bus API binding

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-dbus on CentOS 8.

What is libvirt-dbus

This package provides D-Bus API for libvirt

We can use yum or dnf to install libvirt-dbus on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvirt-dbus.

Install libvirt-dbus 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-dbus using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libvirt-dbus

Install libvirt-dbus 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-dbus using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvirt-dbus

How To Uninstall libvirt-dbus on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the libvirt-dbus package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libvirt-dbus

libvirt-dbus Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d/64a5d4e97df5a54ae4ea7030649dd3bddb6fb5
/usr/sbin/libvirt-dbus
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.Connect.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.Domain.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.Interface.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.NWFilter.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.Network.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.NodeDevice.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.Secret.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.StoragePool.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.StorageVol.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.libvirt.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.libvirt.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.libvirt.conf
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-dbus
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-dbus/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-dbus/HACKING.md
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-dbus/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-dbus/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libvirt-dbus
/usr/share/licenses/libvirt-dbus/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/libvirt-dbus.8.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/libvirt-dbus.rules

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-dbus on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.