How To Install libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter.x86_64 is Nwfilter driver plugin for the libvirtd daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter.x86_64

The nwfilter driver plugin for the libvirtd daemon, providing an implementation of the firewall APIs using the ebtables, iptables and ip6tables capabilities

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

Install libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter.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 libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter.x86_64

How To Uninstall libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter.x86_64

libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/libvirt/nwfilter
/usr/lib64/libvirt/connection-driver/libvirt_driver_nwfilter.so
/var/run/libvirt/network

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.