How To Install gfal2 on CentOS 8

gfal2 is Grid file access library 2.0

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gfal2 on CentOS 8.

What is gfal2

GFAL 2.0 offers an a single and simple POSIX-like API for the file operations in grids and cloud environments. The set of supported protocols depends of the gfal2 installed plugins.

We can use yum or dnf to install gfal2 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gfal2.

Install gfal2 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 gfal2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gfal2

Install gfal2 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 gfal2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gfal2

How To Uninstall gfal2 on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the gfal2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gfal2

gfal2 Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/gfal2.d
/etc/gfal2.d/bdii.conf
/etc/gfal2.d/gfal2_core.conf
/etc/gfal2.d/x509.conf
/usr/bin/gfal2_version
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/7f172e1ff489677d2de014240d4b4b8ca3df33
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9/9106734253e71287e992d6c84468abd0175f0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd/4da07c1b09854e00c9c7e632d96b3f89e1a3fb
/usr/lib64/gfal2-plugins
/usr/lib64/libgfal2.so.2
/usr/lib64/libgfal2.so.2.18.2
/usr/lib64/libgfal_transfer.so.2
/usr/lib64/libgfal_transfer.so.2.18.2
/usr/share/doc/gfal2
/usr/share/doc/gfal2/DESCRIPTION
/usr/share/doc/gfal2/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/gfal2/README.md
/usr/share/doc/gfal2/RELEASE-NOTES
/usr/share/man/man1/gfal2_version.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gfal2 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.