How to Install and Uninstall libvirt Package on Arch Linux

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "libvirt" package

Please follow the steps below to install libvirt on Arch Linux

$ sudo pacman -Sy $ sudo pacman -S libvirt

2. Uninstall "libvirt" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall libvirt on Arch Linux:

$ sudo pacman -Rcns libvirt

3. Information about the libvirt package on Arch Linux

Repository : extra
Name : libvirt
Version : 1:10.1.0-1
Description : API for controlling virtualization engines
(openvz,kvm,qemu,virtualbox,xen,etc)
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://libvirt.org/
Licenses : LGPL-2.1-or-later GPL-3.0-or-later
Groups : None
Provides : libvirt=10.1.0 libvirt.so=0-64 libvirt-admin.so=0-64
libvirt-lxc.so=0-64 libvirt-qemu.so=0-64
Depends On : libpciaccess yajl fuse3 gnutls parted libssh libxml2
numactl polkit libnbd libnl
Optional Deps : libvirt-storage-gluster: Gluster storage backend
libvirt-storage-iscsi-direct: iSCSI-direct storage backend
gettext: required for libvirt-guests.service
openbsd-netcat: for remote management over ssh
dmidecode: DMI system info support
dnsmasq: required for default NAT/DHCP for guests
radvd: IPv6 RAD support
iptables-nft: required for default NAT networking
qemu-desktop: QEMU/KVM support
qemu-emulators-full: Support of additional QEMU architectures
lvm2: Logical Volume Manager support
open-iscsi: iSCSI support via iscsiadm
swtpm: TPM emulator support
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 8.44 MiB
Installed Size : 48.31 MiB
Packager : Frederik Schwan
Build Date : Fri Mar 1 11:36:55 2024
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature