How To Install virt-manager-common on CentOS 8

virt-manager-common is Common files used by the different Virtual Machine Manager interfaces

Introduction

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

What is `virt-manager-common`

Common files used by the different virt-manager interfaces, as well as virt-install related tools.

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

Install virt-manager-common 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-manager-common using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install virt-manager-common

Install virt-manager-common 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-manager-common using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install virt-manager-common

How To Uninstall virt-manager-common on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove virt-manager-common

virt-manager-common Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/cmn/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/virt-manager.mo
/usr/share/virt-manager
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/__init__.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/build.cfg
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/buildconfig.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/capabilities.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/cli.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/cloner.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/connection.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/__init__.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/char.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/controller.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/device.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/disk.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/filesystem.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/graphics.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/hostdev.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/input.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/interface.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/memballoon.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/memory.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/panic.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/redirdev.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/rng.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/smartcard.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/sound.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/tpm.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/video.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/vsock.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/devices/watchdog.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/diskbackend.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/__init__.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/blkiotune.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/clock.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/cpu.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/cputune.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/features.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/idmap.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/launch_security.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/memorybacking.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/memtune.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/metadata.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/numatune.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/os.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/pm.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/resource.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/seclabel.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/sysinfo.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/vcpus.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/xmlnsqemu.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domcapabilities.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/generatename.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/hostkeymap.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/__init__.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installer.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installerinject.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installertreemedia.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/kernelupload.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/unattended.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/urldetect.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/urlfetcher.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/interface.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/logger.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/network.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/nodedev.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/osdict.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/pollhelpers.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/progress.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/snapshot.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/storage.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/support.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/uri.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/xmlapi.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/xmlbuilder.py
/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/xmlutil.py

References

virt-manager-common website

Summary

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