How To Install gearmand on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gearmand on CentOS 8.
What is gearmand
Gearman provides a generic framework to farm out work to other machines or dispatch function calls to machines that are better suited to do the work. It allows you to do work in parallel, to load balance processing, and to call functions between languages. It can be used in a variety of applications, from high-availability web sites to the transport for database replication. In other words, it is the nervous system for how distributed processing communicates.
We can use yum or dnf to install gearmand on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gearmand.
Install gearmand 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 gearmand using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gearmand
Install gearmand 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 gearmand using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gearmand
How To Uninstall gearmand on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gearmand package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gearmand
gearmand Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/sysconfig/gearmand
/usr/bin/gearadmin
/usr/bin/gearman
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a/9b065773e95354db8bd8e2c61ac6e8386279bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/74c50ede5aa3b3117af888c04f0fd4ae9fd8c2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/7262507523173700b4852ab07929940b3e10f8
/usr/lib/systemd/system/gearmand.service
/usr/sbin/gearmand
/usr/share/doc/gearmand
/usr/share/doc/gearmand/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gearmand/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gearmand/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/gearmand/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/gearmand
/usr/share/licenses/gearmand/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/gearadmin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gearman.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/gearmand.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gearmand on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.