How To Install lua-guestfs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-guestfs on Rocky Linux 8. lua-guestfs is Lua bindings for libguestfs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-guestfs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is lua-guestfs

lua-guestfs contains Lua bindings for libguestfs.

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

Install lua-guestfs 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 lua-guestfs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lua-guestfs

Install lua-guestfs 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 lua-guestfs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lua-guestfs

How To Uninstall lua-guestfs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the lua-guestfs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lua-guestfs

lua-guestfs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/64502cc9863666fe1b6913b4d2b2f4642c9922
/usr/lib64/lua/5.3/guestfs.so
/usr/share/doc/lua-guestfs
/usr/share/doc/lua-guestfs/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/lua-guestfs/create_disk.lua
/usr/share/doc/lua-guestfs/inspect_vm.lua
/usr/share/man/man3/guestfs-lua.3.gz

References

Summary

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