How To Install libvirt-daemon-system-sysv on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-system-sysv on Kali Linux.

What is libvirt-daemon-system-sysv

libvirt-daemon-system-sysv 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 dependencies and init scripts to make libvirt work with sysv based init systems. Using libvirt-daemon-systemd is preferred since the init scripts are incomplete.

This package is useless without the libvirt-daemon-system package installed.

There are three methods to install libvirt-daemon-system-sysv on Kali Linux. 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-system-sysv 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-system-sysv using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libvirt-daemon-system-sysv

Install libvirt-daemon-system-sysv Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-daemon-system-sysv using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libvirt-daemon-system-sysv

Install libvirt-daemon-system-sysv Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-daemon-system-sysv using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libvirt-daemon-system-sysv

How To Uninstall libvirt-daemon-system-sysv on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libvirt-daemon-system-sysv package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libvirt-daemon-system-sysv

Uninstall libvirt-daemon-system-sysv And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libvirt-daemon-system-sysv and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvirt-daemon-system-sysv

Remove libvirt-daemon-system-sysv Configurations and Data

To remove libvirt-daemon-system-sysv configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libvirt-daemon-system-sysv

Remove libvirt-daemon-system-sysv configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libvirt-daemon-system-sysv configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvirt-daemon-system-sysv

Dependencies

libvirt-daemon-system-sysv have the following dependencies:

• init-system-helpers
• lsb-base

References

• libvirt-daemon-system-sysv website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-system-sysv package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.