How To Install libvirt-gobject on CentOS 8

libvirt-gobject is libvirt object APIs for managing virtualization hosts

Introduction

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

What is libvirt-gobject

This package provides APIs for managing virtualization host objects

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

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

sudo dnf -y install libvirt-gobject

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

sudo yum -y install libvirt-gobject

How To Uninstall libvirt-gobject on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove libvirt-gobject

libvirt-gobject Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/fcf9297e705efe6f0035c42c2148518b92d30b
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/LibvirtGObject-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libvirt-gobject-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libvirt-gobject-1.0.so.0.3000.0

References

Summary

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