Information about the package, libvirt-client, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libvirt-client package is designed for, Client side library and utilities of the libvirt library.
Package Name:
libvirt-client
Summary:
Client side library and utilities of the libvirt library
URL:
Description:
Shared libraries and client binaries needed to access to the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes).
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.10.2
Release:
62.el6_9.1
Size:
4.1 M
Repository:
updates
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the libvirt-client package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libvirt-client
This command will install libvirt-client on the server.
yum remove libvirt-client
This command will un-install libvirt-client on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libvirt-client, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libvirt-client
This command will un-install libvirt-client on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libvirt-client when using the -y flag.
yum update libvirt-client
This command will update libvirt-client to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libvirt-client, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libvirt-client
This command will update libvirt-client to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libvirt-client when using the -y flag.
yum info libvirt-client
This command will show you core information about the libvirt-client package.
yum deplist libvirt-client
This command will show you the dependencies for libvirt-client. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update libvirt-client
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libvirt-client. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.