How To Install libvirt-gconfig on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-gconfig on CentOS 8.
What is libvirt-gconfig
This package provides APIs for processing the object configuration data
We can use yum or dnf to install libvirt-gconfig on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvirt-gconfig.
Install libvirt-gconfig 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-gconfig using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libvirt-gconfig
Install libvirt-gconfig 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-gconfig using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libvirt-gconfig
How To Uninstall libvirt-gconfig on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the libvirt-gconfig package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libvirt-gconfig
libvirt-gconfig Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/29482b7dc0e1425eb9923f5fecd79ef84286fe
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/LibvirtGConfig-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libvirt-gconfig-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libvirt-gconfig-1.0.so.0.3000.0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-gconfig on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
