How To Install virt-lightning on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install virt-lightning in Fedora 36. virt-lightning is Deploy your testing VM in a couple of seconds

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install virt-lightning on Fedora 36.

What is virt-lightning

A CLI to start local Cloud image on libvirt! Virt-Lightning can quickly deploy a bunch of new VM. It also prepares the Ansible inventory file! This is handy to quickly validate a new Ansible playbook, or a role on a large number of environments.

We can use yum or dnf to install virt-lightning on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install virt-lightning.

Install virt-lightning on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install virt-lightning

Install virt-lightning on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install virt-lightning using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install virt-lightning

How To Uninstall virt-lightning on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove virt-lightning

virt-lightning Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/virt-lightning
/usr/bin/vl
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning-2.1.0-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning-2.1.0-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning-2.1.0-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning-2.1.0-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning-2.1.0-py3.10.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning-2.1.0-py3.10.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning-2.1.0-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/api.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/api.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/configuration.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/configuration.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/shell.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/shell.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/symbols.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/symbols.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/templates.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/templates.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/ui.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/ui.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/version.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/version.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/virt_lightning.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/__pycache__/virt_lightning.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/api.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/configuration.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/shell.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/symbols.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/templates.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/ui.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/version.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virt_lightning/virt_lightning.py
/usr/share/doc/virt-lightning
/usr/share/doc/virt-lightning/DEBUGGING.md
/usr/share/doc/virt-lightning/README.md
/usr/share/doc/virt-lightning/changelog.md
/usr/share/doc/virt-lightning/example.ini
/usr/share/licenses/virt-lightning
/usr/share/licenses/virt-lightning/LICENSE-2.0.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install virt-lightning on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).