How To Install libosinfo on Fedora 34

libosinfo is A library for managing OS information for virtualization A library for managing OS information for virtualization

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libosinfo on Fedora 34.

What is libosinfo

libosinfo is a library that allows virtualization provisioning tools to determine the optimal device settings for a hypervisor/operating system combination. libosinfo 1.9.0 1.fc34 x86_64 297 k libosinfo-1.9.0-1.fc34.src.rpm fedora A library for managing OS information for virtualization https LGPLv2+ libosinfo is a library that allows virtualization provisioning tools to determine the optimal device settings for a hypervisor/operating system combination.

We can use yum or dnf to install libosinfo on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libosinfo.

Install libosinfo on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install libosinfo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libosinfo

Install libosinfo on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install libosinfo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libosinfo

How To Uninstall libosinfo on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the libosinfo package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libosinfo

libosinfo Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/osinfo-detect
/usr/bin/osinfo-install-script
/usr/bin/osinfo-query
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/28c3fcdf74604df1c87809e596b047b8c2e73b
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/05352baeda63fdd21979ea6f0232a27d1151d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6/0aa40177e2a9b6b9e404e97c429321890e110e
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/3714767cc9612b85c75fd241d57fe43f8425fe
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Libosinfo-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libosinfo-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libosinfo-1.0.so.0.1009.0
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo/README
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/osinfo-detect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/osinfo-install-script.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/osinfo-query.1.gz
/usr/bin/osinfo-detect
/usr/bin/osinfo-install-script
/usr/bin/osinfo-query
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/b5d2c62e7f7bec00f743bc56f763ff50b3deaf
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/05e0b93d68a82eb5a2263eca5bd4336730c0b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/15f023e48806101974f0dc47a97248c745917e
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/e963e10c7be547683e715a57c4ead52dd1175f
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Libosinfo-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libosinfo-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libosinfo-1.0.so.0.1009.0
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libosinfo/README
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/osinfo-detect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/osinfo-install-script.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/osinfo-query.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libosinfo on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.