How To Install targetd.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install targetd.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. targetd.noarch is Service to make storage remotely configurable

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install targetd.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is targetd.noarch

targetd turns the machine into a remotely-configurable storage appliance. It supports an HTTP/jsonrpc-2.0 interface to let a remote administrator allocate volumes from an LVM volume group, and export those volumes over iSCSI.

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

Install targetd.noarch 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 targetd.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install targetd.noarch

How To Uninstall targetd.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the targetd.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove targetd.noarch

targetd.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/target/targetd.yaml
/usr/bin/targetd
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd-0.8.5-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/block.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/block.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/block.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/fs.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/fs.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/fs.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/main.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/main.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/main.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/nfs.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/nfs.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/nfs.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/utils.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/utils.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/targetd/utils.pyo
/usr/lib/systemd/system/targetd.service
/usr/share/doc/targetd-0.8.6
/usr/share/doc/targetd-0.8.6/API.md
/usr/share/doc/targetd-0.8.6/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/targetd-0.8.6/README.md
/usr/share/doc/targetd-0.8.6/client
/usr/share/man/man8/targetd.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install targetd.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.