How to Install and Uninstall libvirt-bin Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "libvirt-bin" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install libvirt-bin on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install libvirt-bin

2. Uninstall "libvirt-bin" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall libvirt-bin on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):

$ sudo apt remove libvirt-bin $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the libvirt-bin package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: libvirt-bin
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.31
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Source: libvirt
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Libvirt Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 10643
Provides: libvirt-daemon, libvirt-daemon-system
Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~), lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian11ubuntu7), libapparmor1 (>= 2.6~devel), libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.16), libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.16), libblkid1 (>= 2.17.2), libc6 (>= 2.17), libcap-ng0, libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.97), libgnutls30 (>= 3.4.2), libnetcf1 (>= 1:0.2.2), libnl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libnuma1, libparted2 (>= 3.1), libpcap0.8 (>= 1.0.0), libpciaccess0, librados2 (>= 0.72.2), librbd1 (>= 0.72.2), libreadline6 (>= 6.0), libsasl2-2, libsystemd0, libudev1 (>= 183), libvirt0 (= 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.31), libxen-4.6 (>= 4.6.5), libxenstore3.0 (>= 3.2.0), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libyajl2 (>= 2.0.4), adduser, bridge-utils, cgmanager | cgroup-lite | cgroup-bin, dnsmasq-base (>= 2.46-1), dbus, ebtables, gettext-base, iptables (>= 1.4.10), logrotate, netcat-openbsd
Recommends: libxml2-utils, gawk, dmidecode, parted, pm-utils
Suggests: policykit-1 (>= 0.105-4~), apparmor (>= 2.8.96~2541-0ubuntu4~), qemu-kvm | qemu (>= 0.9.1), radvd
Conflicts: apparmor (<< 2.8.96~2652-0ubuntu1)
Breaks: qemu (<< 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.20~), qemu-kvm (<< 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.20~), xen-utils-4.1 (>= 4.1.2-2ubuntu2), xen-utils-4.4 (>= 4.4.0-0ubuntu5), xen-utils-4.5 (>= 4.5.0-1ubuntu4)
Enhances: qemu, qemu-kvm, xen
Filename: pool/main/libv/libvirt/libvirt-bin_1.3.1-1ubuntu10.31_amd64.deb
Size: 2416636
MD5sum: 4d734c40e0f9f88ecc1939865179a778
SHA1: 9f02ca8baf7afb526af65906582a95dfab9a38c2
SHA256: ac15270803542cf2dff920953ef55a99a1fd96bd21c30b1b55c18e0881997525
SHA512: 49e411fc798fddf34135e24a6d2b2090410357fb74365ae1bb4ae3e42abf7c4fc35849f0a05349cf45df2cd771f57b674f92a44911d174e54cd5e131dba4dc12
Homepage: http://libvirt.org
Description-en: programs for the libvirt library
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The library aims at providing
a long term stable C API for different virtualization mechanisms. It currently
supports QEMU, KVM, XEN, OpenVZ, LXC, and VirtualBox.
.
This package contains the supporting binaries to use with libvirt
Description-md5: e153091b05eb8ed8041905513d4d18ab
Task: virt-host
Supported: 5y

Package: libvirt-bin
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.27
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Source: libvirt
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Libvirt Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 10642
Provides: libvirt-daemon, libvirt-daemon-system
Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~), lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian11ubuntu7), libapparmor1 (>= 2.6~devel), libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.16), libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.16), libblkid1 (>= 2.17.2), libc6 (>= 2.17), libcap-ng0, libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.97), libgnutls30 (>= 3.4.2), libnetcf1 (>= 1:0.2.2), libnl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libnuma1, libparted2 (>= 3.1), libpcap0.8 (>= 1.0.0), libpciaccess0, librados2 (>= 0.72.2), librbd1 (>= 0.72.2), libreadline6 (>= 6.0), libsasl2-2, libsystemd0, libudev1 (>= 183), libvirt0 (= 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.27), libxen-4.6 (>= 4.6.5), libxenstore3.0 (>= 3.2.0), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libyajl2 (>= 2.0.4), adduser, bridge-utils, cgmanager | cgroup-lite | cgroup-bin, dnsmasq-base (>= 2.46-1), dbus, ebtables, gettext-base, iptables (>= 1.4.10), logrotate, netcat-openbsd
Recommends: libxml2-utils, gawk, dmidecode, parted, pm-utils
Suggests: policykit-1 (>= 0.105-4~), apparmor (>= 2.8.96~2541-0ubuntu4~), qemu-kvm | qemu (>= 0.9.1), radvd
Conflicts: apparmor (<< 2.8.96~2652-0ubuntu1)
Breaks: qemu (<< 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.20~), qemu-kvm (<< 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.20~), xen-utils-4.1 (>= 4.1.2-2ubuntu2), xen-utils-4.4 (>= 4.4.0-0ubuntu5), xen-utils-4.5 (>= 4.5.0-1ubuntu4)
Enhances: qemu, qemu-kvm, xen
Filename: pool/main/libv/libvirt/libvirt-bin_1.3.1-1ubuntu10.27_amd64.deb
Size: 2419428
MD5sum: f12f9727158f90bb361ba0ac8f7f3963
SHA1: f12278ea5cca383614c78370f092b17d8fc930b2
SHA256: 29654cb9ecee1464bfb0b35ca7861fc04c977d5b0f82b3c637c4dc57f10171a2
SHA512: 21c0fb68939051ebb3198150a9b7e68a69866a5410e7c21139a1413dadb264fa4db8390e7882f2b2c3b3e4a41862748bb618ef4c966902206889c149ec6376d3
Homepage: http://libvirt.org
Description-en: programs for the libvirt library
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The library aims at providing
a long term stable C API for different virtualization mechanisms. It currently
supports QEMU, KVM, XEN, OpenVZ, LXC, and VirtualBox.
.
This package contains the supporting binaries to use with libvirt
Description-md5: e153091b05eb8ed8041905513d4d18ab
Task: virt-host
Supported: 5y

Package: libvirt-bin
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 10613
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Libvirt Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Source: libvirt
Version: 1.3.1-1ubuntu10
Provides: libvirt-daemon, libvirt-daemon-system
Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~), lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian11ubuntu7), libapparmor1 (>= 2.6~devel), libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.16), libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.16), libblkid1 (>= 2.17.2), libc6 (>= 2.17), libcap-ng0, libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.97), libgnutls30 (>= 3.4.2), libnetcf1 (>= 1:0.2.2), libnl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libnuma1, libparted2 (>= 3.1), libpcap0.8 (>= 1.0.0), libpciaccess0, librados2 (>= 0.72.2), librbd1 (>= 0.72.2), libreadline6 (>= 6.0), libsasl2-2, libsystemd0, libudev1 (>= 183), libvirt0 (= 1.3.1-1ubuntu10), libxen-4.6 (>= 4.6.0), libxenstore3.0 (>= 3.2.0), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libyajl2 (>= 2.0.4), adduser, bridge-utils, cgmanager | cgroup-lite | cgroup-bin, dnsmasq-base (>= 2.46-1), dbus, ebtables, gettext-base, iptables (>= 1.4.10), logrotate, netcat-openbsd
Recommends: libxml2-utils, gawk, dmidecode, parted, pm-utils
Suggests: policykit-1 (>= 0.105-4~), apparmor (>= 2.8.96~2541-0ubuntu4~), qemu-kvm | qemu (>= 0.9.1), radvd
Conflicts: apparmor (<< 2.8.96~2652-0ubuntu1)
Breaks: xen-utils-4.1 (>= 4.1.2-2ubuntu2), xen-utils-4.4 (>= 4.4.0-0ubuntu5), xen-utils-4.5 (>= 4.5.0-1ubuntu4)
Filename: pool/main/libv/libvirt/libvirt-bin_1.3.1-1ubuntu10_amd64.deb
Size: 2412436
MD5sum: cdeeca5eda92cb6930219367da73ab48
SHA1: 0ffe899158c0da40a3af974604f7e9fcf7d246f2
SHA256: 1720af01cae543db69cc014ec770ff67db5217b47040c6c7e65a9cbb87d7a6d8
Description-en: programs for the libvirt library
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The library aims at providing
a long term stable C API for different virtualization mechanisms. It currently
supports QEMU, KVM, XEN, OpenVZ, LXC, and VirtualBox.
.
This package contains the supporting binaries to use with libvirt
Description-md5: e153091b05eb8ed8041905513d4d18ab
Enhances: qemu, qemu-kvm, xen
Homepage: http://libvirt.org
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: virt-host

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