How To Install libvirt-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-devel on Rocky Linux 8. libvirt-devel is Libraries, includes, etc. to compile with the libvirt library

Introduction

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

What is libvirt-devel

Include header files & development libraries for the libvirt C library.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install libvirt-devel

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

sudo yum -y install libvirt-devel

How To Uninstall libvirt-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libvirt-devel

libvirt-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/libvirt
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-admin.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-common.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain-checkpoint.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain-snapshot.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-event.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-host.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-interface.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-lxc.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-network.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-nodedev.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-nwfilter.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-qemu.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-secret.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-storage.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt-stream.h
/usr/include/libvirt/libvirt.h
/usr/include/libvirt/virterror.h
/usr/lib64/libvirt-admin.so
/usr/lib64/libvirt-lxc.so
/usr/lib64/libvirt-qemu.so
/usr/lib64/libvirt.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvirt-admin.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvirt-lxc.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvirt-qemu.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvirt.pc
/usr/share/libvirt/api
/usr/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-admin-api.xml
/usr/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-api.xml
/usr/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-lxc-api.xml
/usr/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-qemu-api.xml

References

Summary

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