How to Install and Uninstall libguestfs.x86_64 Package on Amazon Linux 2

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "libguestfs.x86_64" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install libguestfs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2


    
        
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                sudo yum install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libguestfs.x86_64" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall libguestfs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2:


    
        
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                sudo yum remove 
            
                        
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                sudo yum autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libguestfs.x86_64 package on Amazon Linux 2

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Available Packages
Name : libguestfs
Arch : x86_64
Epoch : 1
Version : 1.36.10
Release : 6.amzn2.2.3
Size : 2.0 M
Repo : amzn2-core/2/x86_64
Summary : Access and modify virtual machine disk images
URL : http://libguestfs.org/
License : LGPLv2+
Description : Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying virtual
: machine disk images. http://libguestfs.org
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: It can be used to make batch configuration changes to guests, get
: disk used/free statistics (virt-df), migrate between hypervisors
: (virt-p2v, virt-v2v), perform backups and guest clones, change
: registry/UUID/hostname info, build guests from scratch
: (virt-builder) and much more.
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: Libguestfs uses Linux kernel and qemu code, and can access any
: type of guest filesystem that Linux and qemu can, including but
: not limited to: ext2/3/4, btrfs, FAT and NTFS, LVM, many different
: disk partition schemes, qcow, qcow2, vmdk.
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: Libguestfs for Amazon Linux is split into several subpackages.
: The basic subpackages are:
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: libguestfs C library
: libguestfs-tools virt-* tools, guestfish and guestmount
: (FUSE)
: libguestfs-tools-c only the subset of virt tools written
: in C
: (for reduced dependencies)
: virt-dib safe and secure diskimage-builder
: replacement virt-v2v convert virtual machines to
: run on KVM (V2V)
: virt-p2v-maker convert physical machines to run on KVM
: (P2V)
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: For enhanced features, install:
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: libguestfs-gfs2 adds Global Filesystem (GFS2) support
: libguestfs-inspect-icons adds support for inspecting guest icons
: libguestfs-rescue enhances virt-rescue shell with more
: tools
: libguestfs-rsync rsync to/from guest filesystems
: libguestfs-xfs adds XFS support
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: For developers:
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: libguestfs-devel C/C++ header files and library
: libguestfs-benchmarking Benchmarking utilities
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: Language bindings:
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: libguestfs-gobject-devel GObject bindings and GObject
: Introspection
: libguestfs-java-devel Java bindings
: lua-guestfs Lua bindings
: ocaml-libguestfs-devel OCaml bindings
: perl-Sys-Guestfs Perl bindings
: python-libguestfs Python bindings
: ruby-libguestfs Ruby bindings