How To Install libvirt-daemon-driver-xen on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-xen on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libvirt-daemon-driver-xen
libvirt-daemon-driver-xen is:
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The library aims at providing a long term stable C API for different virtualization mechanisms. It currently supports QEMU, KVM, XEN, OpenVZ, LXC, and VirtualBox.
This package contains the libvirtd connection driver for Xen.
Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-xen Architecture: amd64 Version: 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3 Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Source: libvirt Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Libvirt Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 461 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.30.0), libvirt0 (>= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3), libxenmisc4.11, libxenstore3.0 (>= 3.2.0), libxentoollog1, libxml2 (>= 2.9.2+really2.9.1+dfsg1-0.2), libvirt-daemon (= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3) Breaks: libvirt-daemon (« 5.6.0-3~) Replaces: libvirt-daemon (« 5.6.0-3~) Filename: pool/universe/libv/libvirt/libvirt-daemon-driver-xen_6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3_amd64.deb Size: 115704 MD5sum: d458b42993d2a23cebc8829b574446ee SHA1: 8a9015ba49be2302a885b4492b2d6265517354ba SHA256: d9217567564e5fc0b18745d0f40ce27cdb3cb024d80d8ca798c7dea5c84803ad SHA512: ee8347dbfd2317290b2ff31f5a735830214e956d88be645760889fe08353b7051d1acbcf17feeca88c8126bde270b928e253cb2cd9a07de63e9e01f7b5829617 Homepage: https://libvirt.org/ Description-en: Virtualization daemon Xen connection driver Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The library aims at providing a long term stable C API for different virtualization mechanisms. It currently supports QEMU, KVM, XEN, OpenVZ, LXC, and VirtualBox.
This package contains the libvirtd connection driver for Xen.
Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-xen Architecture: amd64 Version: 6.0.0-0ubuntu8 Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Source: libvirt Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Libvirt Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 461 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.30.0), libvirt0 (>= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8), libxenmisc4.11, libxenstore3.0 (>= 3.2.0), libxentoollog1, libxml2 (>= 2.9.2+really2.9.1+dfsg1-0.2), libvirt-daemon (= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8) Breaks: libvirt-daemon (« 5.6.0-3~) Replaces: libvirt-daemon (« 5.6.0-3~) Filename: pool/universe/libv/libvirt/libvirt-daemon-driver-xen_6.0.0-0ubuntu8_amd64.deb Size: 114964 MD5sum: 1e94fd62b0d1968ea3c5e7655a923596 SHA1: cae17794f877c7e9f247a4ce7c67c6f51daa754d SHA256: 0dbce20ad792afbb850f86e5f6f26cc2519e3d742194b2b81927bcdd5019b9dd Homepage: https://libvirt.org/ Description-en: Virtualization daemon Xen connection driver Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The library aims at providing a long term stable C API for different virtualization mechanisms. It currently supports QEMU, KVM, XEN, OpenVZ, LXC, and VirtualBox.
This package contains the libvirtd connection driver for Xen.
There are three methods to install libvirt-daemon-driver-xen on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libvirt-daemon-driver-xen Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-daemon-driver-xen using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-xen
Install libvirt-daemon-driver-xen Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-daemon-driver-xen using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-xen
Install libvirt-daemon-driver-xen Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-daemon-driver-xen using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-xen
How To Uninstall libvirt-daemon-driver-xen on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libvirt-daemon-driver-xen package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvirt-daemon-driver-xen
Uninstall libvirt-daemon-driver-xen And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvirt-daemon-driver-xen and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvirt-daemon-driver-xen
Remove libvirt-daemon-driver-xen Configurations and Data
To remove libvirt-daemon-driver-xen configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvirt-daemon-driver-xen
Remove libvirt-daemon-driver-xen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvirt-daemon-driver-xen configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvirt-daemon-driver-xen
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-xen package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.