How to Install and Uninstall libguestfs-tools.noarch Package on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "libguestfs-tools.noarch" package

This is a short guide on how to install libguestfs-tools.noarch on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

$ sudo dnf update $ sudo dnf install libguestfs-tools.noarch

2. Uninstall "libguestfs-tools.noarch" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall libguestfs-tools.noarch on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8:

$ sudo dnf remove libguestfs-tools.noarch $ sudo dnf autoremove

3. Information about the libguestfs-tools.noarch package on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

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Available Packages
Name : libguestfs-tools
Epoch : 1
Version : 1.40.2
Release : 25.module_el8.3.0+555+a55c8938
Architecture : noarch
Size : 28 k
Source : libguestfs-1.40.2-25.module_el8.3.0+555+a55c8938.src.rpm
Repository : appstream
Summary : System administration tools for virtual machines
URL : http://libguestfs.org/
License : GPLv2+
Description : This package contains miscellaneous system administrator command line
: tools for virtual machines.
:
: Guestfish is the Filesystem Interactive SHell, for accessing and
: modifying virtual machine disk images from the command line and shell
: scripts.
:
: The guestmount command lets you mount guest filesystems on the host
: using FUSE and libguestfs.
:
: Virt-alignment-scan scans virtual machines looking for partition
: alignment problems.
:
: Virt-builder is a command line tool for rapidly making disk images
: of popular free operating systems.
:
: Virt-cat is a command line tool to display the contents of a file in a
: virtual machine.
:
: Virt-copy-in and virt-copy-out are command line tools for uploading
: and downloading files and directories to and from virtual machines.
:
: Virt-customize is a command line tool for customizing virtual machine
: disk images.
:
: Virt-df is a command line tool to display free space on virtual
: machine filesystems. Unlike other tools, it doesn’t just display the
: amount of space allocated to a virtual machine, but can look inside
: the virtual machine to see how much space is really being used. It is
: like the df(1) command, but for virtual machines, except that it also
: works for Windows virtual machines.
:
: Virt-diff shows the differences between virtual machines.
:
: Virt-edit is a command line tool to edit the contents of a file in a
: virtual machine.
:
: Virt-filesystems is a command line tool to display the filesystems,
: partitions, block devices, LVs, VGs and PVs found in a disk image
: or virtual machine. It replaces the deprecated programs
: virt-list-filesystems and virt-list-partitions with a much more
: capable tool.
:
: Virt-format is a command line tool to erase and make blank disks.
:
: Virt-get-kernel extracts a kernel/initrd from a disk image.
:
: Virt-inspector examines a virtual machine and tries to determine the
: version of the OS, the kernel version, what drivers are installed,
: whether the virtual machine is fully virtualized (FV) or
: para-virtualized (PV), what applications are installed and more.
:
: Virt-log is a command line tool to display the log files from a
: virtual machine.
:
: Virt-ls is a command line tool to list out files in a virtual machine.
:
: Virt-make-fs is a command line tool to build a filesystem out of
: a collection of files or a tarball.
:
: Virt-rescue provides a rescue shell for making interactive,
: unstructured fixes to virtual machines.
:
: Virt-resize can resize existing virtual machine disk images.
:
: Virt-sparsify makes virtual machine disk images sparse (thin-provisioned).
:
: Virt-sysprep lets you reset or unconfigure virtual machines in
: preparation for cloning them.
:
: Virt-tail follows (tails) a log file within a guest, like 'tail -f'.
:
: Virt-tar-in and virt-tar-out are archive, backup and upload tools
: for virtual machines. These replace the deprecated program virt-tar.
:
: Virt-win-reg lets you look at and modify the Windows Registry of
: Windows virtual machines.