How To Install edg-gridftp-client on CentOS 8

edg-gridftp-client is Command line clients to GridFTP libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install edg-gridftp-client on CentOS 8.

What is edg-gridftp-client

The edg-gridftp-client package is a thin command line interface on top of the GridFTP libraries supplied by Globus. They do, however, represent a useful set of commands to do basic management of files on a GridFTP server. The commands provided are edg-gridftp-exists test if a file/directory exists on the server edg-gridftp-mkdir create a directory on the server edg-gridftp-rmdir remove a directory from a server edg-gridftp-rm remove a file from a server edg-gridftp-ls list files/directories on a server edg-gridftp-rename rename a file/directory on a server

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

Install edg-gridftp-client 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 edg-gridftp-client using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install edg-gridftp-client

Install edg-gridftp-client 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 edg-gridftp-client using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install edg-gridftp-client

How To Uninstall edg-gridftp-client on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the edg-gridftp-client package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove edg-gridftp-client

edg-gridftp-client Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/edg-gridftp-exists
/usr/bin/edg-gridftp-ls
/usr/bin/edg-gridftp-mkdir
/usr/bin/edg-gridftp-rename
/usr/bin/edg-gridftp-rm
/usr/bin/edg-gridftp-rmdir
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/b63521643c9ae57e6909a72846a7469fab06b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/84cfa35b3f8285ab1d2c5349ae0fadabb6a56d
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/b94a286bb73c7022fc6cdf50a2a4e59403223d
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8/b326fabd74a6df192d857495e04336ffdc1909
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/383bc0989be2208bdb1692e563eed5d18ee372
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3/1f155df9f3bbd7996e2e5611bac28ae68e9b44
/usr/libexec/edg-gridftp-base-exists
/usr/libexec/edg-gridftp-base-ls
/usr/libexec/edg-gridftp-base-mkdir
/usr/libexec/edg-gridftp-base-rename
/usr/libexec/edg-gridftp-base-rm
/usr/libexec/edg-gridftp-base-rmdir
/usr/share/doc/edg-gridftp-client
/usr/share/doc/edg-gridftp-client/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/edg-gridftp-client/README
/usr/share/man/man1/edg-gridftp-exists.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/edg-gridftp-ls.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/edg-gridftp-mkdir.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/edg-gridftp-rename.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/edg-gridftp-rm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/edg-gridftp-rmdir.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install edg-gridftp-client on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.