How To Install libvirt-daemon on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libvirt-daemon
libvirt-daemon 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 daemon libvirtd to manage the hypervisors.
There are three methods to install libvirt-daemon
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvirt-daemon
Install libvirt-daemon Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-daemon
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvirt-daemon
Install libvirt-daemon 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvirt-daemon
How To Uninstall libvirt-daemon on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libvirt-daemon
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvirt-daemon
Uninstall libvirt-daemon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvirt-daemon
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvirt-daemon
Remove libvirt-daemon Configurations and Data
To remove libvirt-daemon
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvirt-daemon
Remove libvirt-daemon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvirt-daemon
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvirt-daemon
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.