How To Install ceph-common.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceph-common.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. ceph-common.x86_64 is Ceph Common

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceph-common.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `ceph-common.x86_64`

Common utilities to mount and interact with a ceph storage cluster.

We can use yum to install ceph-common.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ceph-common.x86_64.

Install ceph-common.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ceph-common.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ceph-common.x86_64

How To Uninstall ceph-common.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ceph-common.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ceph-common.x86_64

ceph-common.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/bash_completion.d/ceph
/etc/bash_completion.d/rados
/etc/bash_completion.d/rbd
/etc/ceph
/etc/ceph/rbdmap
/usr/bin/ceph
/usr/bin/ceph-authtool
/usr/bin/ceph-brag
/usr/bin/ceph-conf
/usr/bin/ceph-dencoder
/usr/bin/ceph-post-file
/usr/bin/ceph-rbdnamer
/usr/bin/ceph-syn
/usr/bin/rados
/usr/bin/rbd
/usr/bin/rbd-replay
/usr/bin/rbd-replay-many
/usr/bin/rbdmap
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ceph_argparse.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ceph_argparse.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ceph_argparse.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ceph_daemon.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ceph_daemon.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ceph_daemon.pyo
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rbdmap.service
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-rbd.rules
/usr/share/ceph
/usr/share/ceph/id_rsa_drop.ceph.com
/usr/share/ceph/id_rsa_drop.ceph.com.pub
/usr/share/ceph/known_hosts_drop.ceph.com
/usr/share/man/man8/ceph-authtool.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ceph-conf.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ceph-dencoder.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ceph-post-file.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ceph-rbdnamer.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ceph-syn.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ceph.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rados.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rbd-replay-many.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rbd-replay-prep.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rbd-replay.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rbd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rbdmap.8.gz
/var/log/ceph

References

ceph-common.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceph-common.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.