How To Install targetcli on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install targetcli on Rocky Linux 8. targetcli is An administration shell for storage targets

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install targetcli on Rocky Linux 8.

What is targetcli

An administration shell for configuring iSCSI, FCoE, and other SCSI targets, using the TCM/LIO kernel target subsystem. FCoE users will also need to install and use fcoe-utils.

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

Install targetcli 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 targetcli using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install targetcli

Install targetcli 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 targetcli using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install targetcli

How To Uninstall targetcli on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the targetcli package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove targetcli

targetcli Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/target
/etc/target/backup
/etc/target/pr
/usr/bin/targetcli
/usr/bin/targetclid
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_backstore.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_backstore.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_node.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_node.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_root.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_root.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_target.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_target.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/version.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/version.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/ui_backstore.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/ui_node.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/ui_root.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/ui_target.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/version.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli_fb-2.1.53-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli_fb-2.1.53-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli_fb-2.1.53-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli_fb-2.1.53-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli_fb-2.1.53-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/systemd/system/targetclid.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/targetclid.socket
/usr/share/doc/targetcli
/usr/share/doc/targetcli/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/targetcli/README.md
/usr/share/man/man8/targetcli.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/targetclid.8.gz

References

Summary

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