How To Install libvirt-daemon-system on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-system on Ubuntu.

What is `libvirt-daemon-system`

libvirt-daemon-system is:

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 configuration files to run the libvirt daemon as a system service.

There are three methods to install libvirt-daemon-system on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libvirt-daemon-system Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-daemon-system using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libvirt-daemon-system

Install libvirt-daemon-system Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-daemon-system using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libvirt-daemon-system

Install libvirt-daemon-system Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-daemon-system using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libvirt-daemon-system

How To Uninstall libvirt-daemon-system on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libvirt-daemon-system package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libvirt-daemon-system

Uninstall libvirt-daemon-system And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libvirt-daemon-system and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvirt-daemon-system

Remove libvirt-daemon-system Configurations and Data

To remove libvirt-daemon-system configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libvirt-daemon-system

Remove libvirt-daemon-system configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libvirt-daemon-system configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvirt-daemon-system

Dependencies

libvirt-daemon-system have the following dependencies:

References

libvirt-daemon-system website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-system package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.