How To Install nbdkit on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nbdkit on CentOS 8.
What is nbdkit
NBD is a protocol for accessing block devices (hard disks and disk-like things) over the network. nbdkit is a toolkit for creating NBD servers. The key features are * Multithreaded NBD server written in C with good performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic server. * Liberal license (BSD) allows nbdkit to be linked to proprietary libraries or included in proprietary code. * Well-documented, simple plugin API with a stable ABI guarantee. Lets you to export “unconventional” block devices easily. * You can write plugins in C or many other languages. * Filters can be stacked in front of plugins to transform the output. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, ’nbdkit’ is a meta-package which pulls in the core server and a useful subset of plugins and filters. If you want just the server, install ’nbdkit-server’. To develop plugins, install the ’nbdkit-devel’ package and start by reading the nbdkit(1) and nbdkit-plugin(3) manual pages.
We can use yum or dnf to install nbdkit on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nbdkit.
Install nbdkit 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 nbdkit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nbdkit
Install nbdkit 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 nbdkit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nbdkit
How To Uninstall nbdkit on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the nbdkit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nbdkit
nbdkit Package Contents on CentOS 8
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nbdkit on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.