How To Install afpfs-ng on CentOS 8

afpfs-ng is Apple Filing Protocol client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install afpfs-ng on CentOS 8.

What is afpfs-ng

A command line client to access files exported from Mac OS system via Apple Filing Protocol. The FUSE filesystem module for AFP is in fuse-afp package

We can use yum or dnf to install afpfs-ng on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install afpfs-ng.

Install afpfs-ng on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install afpfs-ng using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install afpfs-ng

Install afpfs-ng on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install afpfs-ng using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install afpfs-ng

How To Uninstall afpfs-ng on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the afpfs-ng package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove afpfs-ng

afpfs-ng Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/afpcmd
/usr/bin/afpgetstatus
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/30
/usr/lib/.build-id/30/530ce54ff848e91fc0ea5514d29763e1ba6df5
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/9106b992074175f7316cf6e16af745eef59f02
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/8144ca841fd28ef04987e1a2fd021057e6fb65
/usr/lib64/libafpclient.so.0
/usr/lib64/libafpclient.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/afpfs-ng
/usr/share/doc/afpfs-ng/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/afpfs-ng/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/afpfs-ng/FEATURES.txt
/usr/share/doc/afpfs-ng/README
/usr/share/doc/afpfs-ng/REPORTING-BUGS.txt
/usr/share/doc/afpfs-ng/performance
/usr/share/licenses/afpfs-ng
/usr/share/licenses/afpfs-ng/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/afpcmd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/afpgetstatus.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install afpfs-ng on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.