How To Install genwqe-tools on CentOS 8

genwqe-tools is GenWQE userspace tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install genwqe-tools on CentOS 8.

What is `genwqe-tools`

Provide a suite of utilities to manage and configure the IBM GenWQE card.

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

Install genwqe-tools 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 genwqe-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install genwqe-tools

Install genwqe-tools 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 genwqe-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install genwqe-tools

How To Uninstall genwqe-tools on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the genwqe-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove genwqe-tools

genwqe-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/genwqe_cksum
/usr/bin/genwqe_echo
/usr/bin/genwqe_ffdc
/usr/bin/genwqe_gunzip
/usr/bin/genwqe_gzip
/usr/bin/genwqe_memcopy
/usr/bin/genwqe_mt_perf
/usr/bin/genwqe_peek
/usr/bin/genwqe_poke
/usr/bin/genwqe_test_gz
/usr/bin/genwqe_update
/usr/bin/gzFile_test
/usr/bin/zlib_mt_perf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/24
/usr/lib/.build-id/24/2c68b0126752d01e05dacacbab69fc97d443e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/fc1468584863e80380380fd502f3bfc36f4c10
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/42e28db63007a26daaab439cbc473751d98664
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/42e28db63007a26daaab439cbc473751d98664.1
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/ac7866ea3679c5ed2bbfa3d532d7dfaf8e4430
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/007e06e5f10025efa87eb5c5a3fb52c3a9c7b0
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2/558c7bb75b159be85237edde116fe19841ac63
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/27e0775ede29e3c543d8228c1c3ce8e818fbad
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/63608d983a30e815507ba45d7c3facfa93876a
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/e4eb3dff07bc9212a481995f5c36e61e3a3784
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/dc19afb0b603a708fa2adb6bada81563b0ef91
/usr/share/licenses/genwqe-tools
/usr/share/licenses/genwqe-tools/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/genwqe_cksum.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/genwqe_echo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/genwqe_ffdc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/genwqe_gunzip.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/genwqe_gzip.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/genwqe_memcopy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/genwqe_mt_perf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/genwqe_peek.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/genwqe_poke.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/genwqe_test_gz.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/genwqe_update.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gzFile_test.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zlib_mt_perf.1.gz

References

genwqe-tools website

Summary

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