How To Install gfal2-plugin-srm on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gfal2-plugin-srm on CentOS 8.
What is gfal2-plugin-srm
Provides the srm support (srm The srm plugin provides the POSIX operations and the third party transfer support on the SRM URLs.
We can use yum or dnf to install gfal2-plugin-srm on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gfal2-plugin-srm.
Install gfal2-plugin-srm 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-plugin-srm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gfal2-plugin-srm
Install gfal2-plugin-srm 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-plugin-srm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gfal2-plugin-srm
How To Uninstall gfal2-plugin-srm on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gfal2-plugin-srm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gfal2-plugin-srm
gfal2-plugin-srm Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/gfal2.d/srm_plugin.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/de731c928338d2dfe35a26f41a8416f72b31ab
/usr/lib64/gfal2-plugins/libgfal_plugin_srm.so
/usr/share/doc/gfal2/README_PLUGIN_SRM
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gfal2-plugin-srm on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
