How to Install and Uninstall libguestfs.x86_64 Package on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

Last updated: May 07,2024

1. Install "libguestfs.x86_64" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libguestfs.x86_64 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall libguestfs.x86_64 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8:


    
        
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                sudo dnf autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libguestfs.x86_64 package on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

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Available Packages
Name : libguestfs
Epoch : 1
Version : 1.40.2
Release : 25.module_el8.3.0+555+a55c8938
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 2.7 M
Source : libguestfs-1.40.2-25.module_el8.3.0+555+a55c8938.src.rpm
Repository : appstream
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, FAT and NTFS, LVM, many different disk partition
: schemes, qcow, qcow2, vmdk.
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: Libguestfs for Red Hat Enterprise 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-v2v convert virtual machines to run on KVM (V2V)
: virt-p2v-maker convert physical machines to run on KVM (P2V)
: virt-dib safe and secure diskimage-builder replacement
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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
: python3-libguestfs Python 3 bindings
: ruby-libguestfs Ruby bindings