How To Install daxio on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install daxio on CentOS 8.
What is daxio
The daxio utility performs I/O on Device DAX devices or zero a Device DAX device. Since the standard I/O APIs (read/write) cannot be used with Device DAX, data transfer is performed on a memory-mapped device. The daxio may be used to dump Device DAX data to a file, restore data from a backup copy, move/copy data to another device or to erase data from a device.
We can use yum or dnf to install daxio on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install daxio.
Install daxio 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 daxio using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install daxio
Install daxio 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 daxio using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install daxio
How To Uninstall daxio on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the daxio package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove daxio
daxio Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/daxio
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0/7d5eb7f40492594fa4e966b2c31ba7b6590fa9
/usr/share/doc/daxio
/usr/share/doc/daxio/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/daxio/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/daxio/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/daxio
/usr/share/licenses/daxio/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/daxio.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install daxio on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.