How To Install dcap-tunnel-gsi on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install dcap-tunnel-gsi on Rocky Linux 8. dcap-tunnel-gsi is GSI tunnel for dCache

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dcap-tunnel-gsi on Rocky Linux 8.

What is dcap-tunnel-gsi

This package contains the gsi tunnel plugin library used by dcap-libs. This library is dynamically loaded at runtime.

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

Install dcap-tunnel-gsi 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 dcap-tunnel-gsi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dcap-tunnel-gsi

Install dcap-tunnel-gsi 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 dcap-tunnel-gsi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dcap-tunnel-gsi

How To Uninstall dcap-tunnel-gsi on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the dcap-tunnel-gsi package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dcap-tunnel-gsi

dcap-tunnel-gsi Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/88
/usr/lib/.build-id/88/f357f7051a9ea8ff51791c30196a2b8d33cb12
/usr/lib64/dcap/libgsiTunnel.so
/usr/share/licenses/dcap-tunnel-gsi
/usr/share/licenses/dcap-tunnel-gsi/Copyright

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dcap-tunnel-gsi on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.