How To Install nfs4-acl-tools on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install nfs4-acl-tools on Rocky Linux 8. nfs4-acl-tools is The nfs4 ACL tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nfs4-acl-tools on Rocky Linux 8.

What is nfs4-acl-tools

This package contains commandline ACL utilities for the Linux NFSv4 client.

We can use yum or dnf to install nfs4-acl-tools on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nfs4-acl-tools.

Install nfs4-acl-tools 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 nfs4-acl-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nfs4-acl-tools

Install nfs4-acl-tools 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 nfs4-acl-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nfs4-acl-tools

How To Uninstall nfs4-acl-tools on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the nfs4-acl-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nfs4-acl-tools

nfs4-acl-tools Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/nfs4_editfacl
/usr/bin/nfs4_getfacl
/usr/bin/nfs4_setfacl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b/8ec0bc33c2e1272a0b99117616326f5875f5b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/31e5e9b8810941c1e294cea44cbdf5e1b629b8
/usr/share/doc/nfs4-acl-tools
/usr/share/doc/nfs4-acl-tools/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nfs4-acl-tools/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/nfs4-acl-tools/README
/usr/share/doc/nfs4-acl-tools/TODO
/usr/share/doc/nfs4-acl-tools/VERSION
/usr/share/man/man1/nfs4_editfacl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nfs4_getfacl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nfs4_setfacl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/nfs4_acl.5.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nfs4-acl-tools on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.