How To Install libguestfs-tools-c on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-tools-c on CentOS 7.

What is libguestfs-tools-c

This package contains miscellaneous system administrator command line tools for virtual machines. Note that you should install libguestfs-tools (which pulls in this package). This package is only used directly when you want to avoid dependencies on Perl.

We can use yum or dnf to install libguestfs-tools-c on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libguestfs-tools-c.

Install libguestfs-tools-c on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install libguestfs-tools-c

Install libguestfs-tools-c on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install libguestfs-tools-c

How To Uninstall libguestfs-tools-c on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove libguestfs-tools-c

References

• libguestfs-tools-c website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-tools-c on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.