How To Install fence-agents-kdump on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-kdump on Rocky Linux 8. fence-agents-kdump is Fence agent for use with kdump crash recovery service

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-kdump on Rocky Linux 8.

What is fence-agents-kdump

Fence agent for use with kdump crash recovery service.

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

Install fence-agents-kdump 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 fence-agents-kdump using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fence-agents-kdump

Install fence-agents-kdump 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 fence-agents-kdump using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fence-agents-kdump

How To Uninstall fence-agents-kdump on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the fence-agents-kdump package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fence-agents-kdump

fence-agents-kdump Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/122cdd7bcd5fe2cfde46db94cf1b129b706bbb
/usr/lib/.build-id/79
/usr/lib/.build-id/79/15ba0bce9cef577fbb193fffd809d3b1cc0bbf
/usr/libexec/fence_kdump_send
/usr/sbin/fence_kdump
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_kdump.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_kdump_send.8.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-kdump on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.