How To Install libvirt-devel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-devel on CentOS 8.
What is libvirt-devel
Include header files & development libraries for the libvirt C library.
We can use yum or dnf to install libvirt-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvirt-devel.
Install libvirt-devel 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-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libvirt-devel
Install libvirt-devel 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-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libvirt-devel
How To Uninstall libvirt-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the libvirt-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libvirt-devel
libvirt-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/libvirt
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-admin.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-common.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain-checkpoint.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain-snapshot.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-event.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-host.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-interface.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-lxc.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-network.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-nodedev.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-nwfilter.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-qemu.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-secret.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-storage.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-stream.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt.h
/usr/include/libvirt/virterror.h
/usr/lib64/libvirt-admin.so
/usr/lib64/libvirt-lxc.so
/usr/lib64/libvirt-qemu.so
/usr/lib64/libvirt.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvirt-admin.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvirt-lxc.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvirt-qemu.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvirt.pc
/usr/share/libvirt/api
/usr/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-admin-api.xml
/usr/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-api.xml
/usr/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-lxc-api.xml
/usr/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-qemu-api.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.