How To Install fence-virtd-tcp on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd-tcp on Rocky Linux 8. fence-virtd-tcp is TCP listener for fence-virtd

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-virtd-tcp on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `fence-virtd-tcp`

Provides TCP listener capability for fence-virtd.

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

Install fence-virtd-tcp 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-virtd-tcp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fence-virtd-tcp

Install fence-virtd-tcp 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-virtd-tcp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fence-virtd-tcp

How To Uninstall fence-virtd-tcp on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the fence-virtd-tcp package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fence-virtd-tcp

fence-virtd-tcp Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/24c9760e5fa114386886d7bfe0c137054f9126
/usr/lib64/fence-virt/tcp.so

References

fence-virtd-tcp website

Summary

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