How To Install fcoe-utils on CentOS 8

fcoe-utils is Fibre Channel over Ethernet utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fcoe-utils on CentOS 8.

What is fcoe-utils

Fibre Channel over Ethernet utilities fcoeadm - command line tool for configuring FCoE interfaces fcoemon - service to configure DCB Ethernet QOS filters, works with lldpad

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

Install fcoe-utils 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 fcoe-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fcoe-utils

Install fcoe-utils 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 fcoe-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fcoe-utils

How To Uninstall fcoe-utils on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the fcoe-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fcoe-utils

fcoe-utils Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fcoe
/etc/fcoe/cfg-ethx
/etc/sysconfig/fcoe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/5132c1fd246548b53385825696dbc69d118e5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c/5817ec411e4239addef40da97b1a65f8b844d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e/b7494d0d07c5d16d4f53f6d3530e4133a8c538
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/5b08bceadb2dddf55628a7dabb44b6df6c571c
/usr/lib/.build-id/65
/usr/lib/.build-id/65/77a77f3a25edf55c197a8fd41d350d7cb5295f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d/a8d0953c5ecf43bf1f51ee27beced78f0725c7
/usr/lib/systemd/system/fcoe.service
/usr/libexec/fcoe
/usr/libexec/fcoe/dcbcheck.sh
/usr/libexec/fcoe/fcc.sh
/usr/libexec/fcoe/fcoe-setup.sh
/usr/libexec/fcoe/fcoe_edd.sh
/usr/libexec/fcoe/fcoedump.sh
/usr/sbin/fcnsq
/usr/sbin/fcoeadm
/usr/sbin/fcoemon
/usr/sbin/fcping
/usr/sbin/fcrls
/usr/sbin/fipvlan
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/fcoeadm
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/fcoemon
/usr/share/doc/fcoe-utils
/usr/share/doc/fcoe-utils/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fcoe-utils/QUICKSTART
/usr/share/doc/fcoe-utils/README
/usr/share/doc/fcoe-utils/quickstart.txt
/usr/share/man/man8/fcnsq.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fcoeadm.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fcoemon.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fcping.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fcrls.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fipvlan.8.gz

References

Summary

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