How To Install libvirt-dbus on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-dbus on Rocky Linux 8. libvirt-dbus is libvirt D-Bus API binding

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-dbus on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libvirt-dbus

This package provides D-Bus API for libvirt

We can use yum or dnf to install libvirt-dbus on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvirt-dbus.

Install libvirt-dbus 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 libvirt-dbus using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libvirt-dbus

Install libvirt-dbus 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 libvirt-dbus using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvirt-dbus

How To Uninstall libvirt-dbus on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libvirt-dbus package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libvirt-dbus

libvirt-dbus Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/360238bfc158bc8c3cb98c80cb7979b75c51dd
/usr/sbin/libvirt-dbus
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.Connect.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.Domain.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.Interface.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.NWFilter.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.Network.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.NodeDevice.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.Secret.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.StoragePool.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.libvirt.StorageVol.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.libvirt.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.libvirt.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.libvirt.conf
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-dbus
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-dbus/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-dbus/HACKING.md
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-dbus/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-dbus/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libvirt-dbus
/usr/share/licenses/libvirt-dbus/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/libvirt-dbus.8.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/libvirt-dbus.rules

References

Summary

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