How To Install libguestfs-tools-c.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-tools-c.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libguestfs-tools-c.x86_64 is System administration tools for virtual machines

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-tools-c.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libguestfs-tools-c.x86_64

This package contains miscellaneous system administrator command line tools for virtual machines. Note that you should install libguestfs-tools (which pulls in this package). This package is only used directly when you want to avoid dependencies on Perl.

We can use yum to install libguestfs-tools-c.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libguestfs-tools-c.x86_64.

Install libguestfs-tools-c.x86_64 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 libguestfs-tools-c.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libguestfs-tools-c.x86_64

How To Uninstall libguestfs-tools-c.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libguestfs-tools-c.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libguestfs-tools-c.x86_64

libguestfs-tools-c.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/libguestfs-tools.conf
/etc/profile.d/guestfish.sh
/etc/virt-builder
/etc/xdg/virt-builder
/etc/xdg/virt-builder/repos.d
/etc/xdg/virt-builder/repos.d/libguestfs.conf
/etc/xdg/virt-builder/repos.d/libguestfs.gpg
/etc/xdg/virt-builder/repos.d/opensuse.conf
/etc/xdg/virt-builder/repos.d/opensuse.gpg
/usr/bin/guestfish
/usr/bin/guestmount
/usr/bin/guestunmount
/usr/bin/virt-alignment-scan
/usr/bin/virt-builder
/usr/bin/virt-cat
/usr/bin/virt-copy-in
/usr/bin/virt-copy-out
/usr/bin/virt-customize
/usr/bin/virt-df
/usr/bin/virt-diff
/usr/bin/virt-edit
/usr/bin/virt-filesystems
/usr/bin/virt-format
/usr/bin/virt-get-kernel
/usr/bin/virt-index-validate
/usr/bin/virt-inspector
/usr/bin/virt-log
/usr/bin/virt-ls
/usr/bin/virt-make-fs
/usr/bin/virt-rescue
/usr/bin/virt-resize
/usr/bin/virt-sparsify
/usr/bin/virt-sysprep
/usr/bin/virt-tail
/usr/bin/virt-tar-in
/usr/bin/virt-tar-out
/usr/share/doc/libguestfs-tools-c-1.36.10
/usr/share/doc/libguestfs-tools-c-1.36.10/README
/usr/share/man/man1/guestfish.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/guestmount.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/guestunmount.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-alignment-scan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-builder.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-cat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-copy-in.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-copy-out.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-customize.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-df.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-diff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-edit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-filesystems.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-format.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-get-kernel.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-index-validate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-inspector.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-log.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-ls.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-make-fs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-rescue.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-resize.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-sparsify.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-sysprep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-tail.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-tar-in.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-tar-out.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/libguestfs-tools.conf.5.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-tools-c.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.