How To Install lua-guestfs on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-guestfs on CentOS 8.
What is lua-guestfs
lua-guestfs contains Lua bindings for libguestfs.
We can use yum or dnf to install lua-guestfs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lua-guestfs.
Install lua-guestfs 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 lua-guestfs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lua-guestfs
Install lua-guestfs 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 lua-guestfs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lua-guestfs
How To Uninstall lua-guestfs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the lua-guestfs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lua-guestfs
lua-guestfs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8/bf2db5871b775a8064dcdd4f818c8f44946dab
/usr/lib64/lua/5.3/guestfs.so
/usr/share/doc/lua-guestfs
/usr/share/doc/lua-guestfs/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/lua-guestfs/create_disk.lua
/usr/share/doc/lua-guestfs/inspect_vm.lua
/usr/share/man/man3/guestfs-lua.3.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-guestfs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.