How To Install libguestfs-java on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-java on Rocky Linux 8. libguestfs-java is Java bindings for libguestfs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-java on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libguestfs-java

libguestfs-java contains Java bindings for libguestfs. If you want to develop software in Java which uses libguestfs, then you will also need libguestfs-java-devel.

We can use yum or dnf to install libguestfs-java on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libguestfs-java.

Install libguestfs-java on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install libguestfs-java

Install libguestfs-java on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install libguestfs-java

How To Uninstall libguestfs-java on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libguestfs-java package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libguestfs-java

libguestfs-java Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/8642f35ed53ff308d82918f4b2167115a091dd
/usr/lib64/libguestfs_jni.so.1
/usr/lib64/libguestfs_jni.so.1.40.2
/usr/share/java/libguestfs.jar

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-java on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.