How To Install virt-dib on CentOS 8

virt-dib is Safe and secure diskimage-builder replacement

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install virt-dib on CentOS 8.

What is virt-dib

Virt-dib is a safe and secure alternative to the OpenStack diskimage-builder command. It is compatible with most diskimage-builder elements.

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

Install virt-dib 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 virt-dib using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install virt-dib

Install virt-dib 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 virt-dib using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install virt-dib

How To Uninstall virt-dib on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the virt-dib package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove virt-dib

virt-dib Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/virt-dib
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/9ebda6336ba72024ba073a957eadab9985a327
/usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-packages-dib
/usr/share/doc/virt-dib
/usr/share/doc/virt-dib/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/virt-dib/README
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-dib.1.gz

References

Summary

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