How To Install libvirt on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt on Fedora 34.
What is libvirt
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The main package includes the libvirtd server exporting the virtualization support.
We can use yum or dnf to install libvirt on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvirt.
Install libvirt 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 libvirt using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libvirt
Install libvirt 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 libvirt using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libvirt
How To Uninstall libvirt on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the libvirt package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libvirt
libvirt Package Contents on Fedora 34
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.