How To Install libosinfo on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libosinfo on Rocky Linux 8. libosinfo is A library for managing OS information for virtualization

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libosinfo on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `libosinfo`

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libosinfo.

Install libosinfo 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 libosinfo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libosinfo

Install libosinfo 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 libosinfo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libosinfo

How To Uninstall libosinfo on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libosinfo

libosinfo Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/osinfo-detect
/usr/bin/osinfo-install-script
/usr/bin/osinfo-query
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/4a20daa603bd7e77cc8df0b72c70c2d2087948
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e/22564cba196be3665e6d7426d725aeedc18ab4
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/00235eb71509e70e0c1351153d45fd1f882d0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/331f0771532e54ffff4be21c926afb32671fc3
/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/0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/daf0bd46f7ca457a0612fdd7fbf104cf64d07f
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f/f96a6059b92f278a785d8b3530ead8f04df952
/usr/lib/.build-id/71
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/e029c26a03060b90c1486f0892184eb3f89b53
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/79ab59316e0b3830a459c89851ea3bc0234b76
/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

libosinfo website

Summary

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