How To Install libibverbs-utils on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libibverbs-utils on Rocky Linux 8. libibverbs-utils is Examples for the libibverbs library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libibverbs-utils on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libibverbs-utils

Useful libibverbs example programs such as ibv_devinfo, which displays information about RDMA devices.

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

Install libibverbs-utils 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 libibverbs-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libibverbs-utils

Install libibverbs-utils 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 libibverbs-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libibverbs-utils

How To Uninstall libibverbs-utils on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libibverbs-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libibverbs-utils

libibverbs-utils Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/ibv_asyncwatch
/usr/bin/ibv_devices
/usr/bin/ibv_devinfo
/usr/bin/ibv_rc_pingpong
/usr/bin/ibv_srq_pingpong
/usr/bin/ibv_uc_pingpong
/usr/bin/ibv_ud_pingpong
/usr/bin/ibv_xsrq_pingpong
/usr/bin/rxe_cfg
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/013c9aef2285d6135b1766a80d969a93c82f2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/29
/usr/lib/.build-id/29/ff0caf230859265fc7bef1a4677fa65c0e19c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/41
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/7837a2de9c9a59aec290cb3197bfaee7a4ddd6
/usr/lib/.build-id/88
/usr/lib/.build-id/88/08bfa6a21c01737a26154d35cd65ca2a4bdbdb
/usr/lib/.build-id/91
/usr/lib/.build-id/91/0e317e7c578e9c594753c1330105c79a5efac9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0/8f9ef93831e6838c1ef599b8a972a0bbca7556
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/f3e33e4f12636ac1a886804b420f04c7234352
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed/3108a559bd67827e341cbe4e0f13c87f748349
/usr/share/man/man1/ibv_asyncwatch.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ibv_devices.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ibv_devinfo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ibv_rc_pingpong.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ibv_srq_pingpong.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ibv_uc_pingpong.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ibv_ud_pingpong.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ibv_xsrq_pingpong.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rxe_cfg.8.gz

References

Summary

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