How To Install rshim on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rshim on CentOS 8.
What is rshim
This is the user-space driver to access the BlueField SoC via the rshim interface. It provides ways to push boot stream, debug the target or login via the virtual console or network interface.
We can use yum or dnf to install rshim on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rshim.
Install rshim 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 rshim using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rshim
Install rshim 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 rshim using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rshim
How To Uninstall rshim on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the rshim package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rshim
rshim Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f/8055176e93885ae70e9ceca9348ba9171ec3c1
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rshim.service
/usr/sbin/rshim
/usr/share/doc/rshim
/usr/share/doc/rshim/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/rshim
/usr/share/licenses/rshim/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/rshim.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rshim on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.