Information about the package, libvirt-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libvirt-devel package is designed for, Libraries, includes, etc. to compile with the libvirt library.
Package Name:
libvirt-devel
Summary:
Libraries, includes, etc. to compile with the libvirt library
URL:
Description:
Includes and documentations for the C library providing an API to use the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes).
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.10.2
Release:
62.el6_9.1
Size:
915 k
Repository:
updates
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the libvirt-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libvirt-devel
This command will install libvirt-devel on the server.
yum remove libvirt-devel
This command will un-install libvirt-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libvirt-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libvirt-devel
This command will un-install libvirt-devel 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-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update libvirt-devel
This command will update libvirt-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libvirt-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libvirt-devel
This command will update libvirt-devel 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-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info libvirt-devel
This command will show you core information about the libvirt-devel package.
yum deplist libvirt-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for libvirt-devel. 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-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libvirt-devel. 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.