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

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-virsh on Rocky Linux 8. fence-agents-virsh is Fence agent for virtual machines based on libvirt

Introduction

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

What is fence-agents-virsh

Fence agent for virtual machines that are accessed via SSH.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install fence-agents-virsh

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

sudo yum -y install fence-agents-virsh

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

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

sudo dnf remove fence-agents-virsh

fence-agents-virsh Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/sbin/fence_virsh
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_virsh.8.gz

References

Summary

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