How To Install corosync on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install corosync on Rocky Linux 8. corosync is The Corosync Cluster Engine and Application Programming Interfaces

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install corosync on Rocky Linux 8.

What is corosync

This package contains the Corosync Cluster Engine Executive, several default APIs and libraries, default configuration files, and an init script.

We can use yum or dnf to install corosync on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install corosync.

Install corosync on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install corosync using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install corosync

Install corosync on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install corosync using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install corosync

How To Uninstall corosync on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the corosync package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove corosync

corosync Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/corosync
/etc/corosync/corosync.conf.example
/etc/corosync/uidgid.d
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/corosync-signals.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/corosync
/etc/sysconfig/corosync
/etc/sysconfig/corosync-notifyd
/usr/bin/corosync-blackbox
/usr/bin/corosync-xmlproc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/2064107cc328b47337060e2e672d10b49a1f86
/usr/lib/.build-id/89
/usr/lib/.build-id/89/4bd748d35f17dbc1a22a1330cabd546b818d5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/a897cb42cc4367b8d376fbfd4337e091648d56
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/7cd2d95b65ea0591c7420e79ef504fee293fc0
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/b4d0bd77acb914ab650876a2095f8a69165477
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf/83dad55f159a686fcd188f0115d752a2c81999
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/7cb25c3f32034fd5fe318e44a65e1ebef00211
/usr/lib/systemd/system/corosync-notifyd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/corosync.service
/usr/sbin/corosync
/usr/sbin/corosync-cfgtool
/usr/sbin/corosync-cmapctl
/usr/sbin/corosync-cpgtool
/usr/sbin/corosync-keygen
/usr/sbin/corosync-notifyd
/usr/sbin/corosync-quorumtool
/usr/share/corosync
/usr/share/corosync/xml2conf.xsl
/usr/share/doc/corosync
/usr/share/doc/corosync/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man5/corosync.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/corosync.xml.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/votequorum.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cmap_keys.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/corosync_overview.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/corosync-blackbox.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/corosync-cfgtool.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/corosync-cmapctl.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/corosync-cpgtool.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/corosync-keygen.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/corosync-notifyd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/corosync-quorumtool.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/corosync-xmlproc.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/corosync.8.gz
/usr/share/snmp/mibs/COROSYNC-MIB.txt
/var/lib/corosync
/var/log/cluster

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install corosync on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.