How To Install libgovirt.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgovirt.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libgovirt.i686 is A GObject library for interacting with oVirt REST API

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgovirt.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libgovirt.i686`

libgovirt is a library that allows applications to use oVirt REST API to list VMs managed by an oVirt instance, and to get the connection parameters needed to make a SPICE/VNC connection to them.

We can use yum to install libgovirt.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libgovirt.i686.

Install libgovirt.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libgovirt.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libgovirt.i686

How To Uninstall libgovirt.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libgovirt.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libgovirt.i686

libgovirt.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/GoVirt-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libgovirt.so.2
/usr/lib/libgovirt.so.2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libgovirt-0.3.4
/usr/share/doc/libgovirt-0.3.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libgovirt-0.3.4/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libgovirt-0.3.4/MAINTAINERS
/usr/share/doc/libgovirt-0.3.4/README
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libgovirt.mo

References

libgovirt.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgovirt.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.