How To Install targetcli on CentOS 8

targetcli is An administration shell for storage targets

Introduction

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

What is `targetcli`

An administration shell for configuring iSCSI, FCoE, and other SCSI targets, using the TCM/LIO kernel target subsystem. FCoE users will also need to install and use fcoe-utils.

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

Install targetcli 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 targetcli using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install targetcli

Install targetcli 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 targetcli using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install targetcli

How To Uninstall targetcli on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove targetcli

targetcli Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/target
/etc/target/backup
/etc/target/pr
/usr/bin/targetcli
/usr/bin/targetclid
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_backstore.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_backstore.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_node.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_node.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_root.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_root.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_target.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_target.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/version.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/version.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/ui_backstore.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/ui_node.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/ui_root.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/ui_target.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli/version.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli_fb-2.1.53-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli_fb-2.1.53-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli_fb-2.1.53-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli_fb-2.1.53-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/targetcli_fb-2.1.53-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/systemd/system/targetclid.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/targetclid.socket
/usr/share/doc/targetcli
/usr/share/doc/targetcli/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/targetcli/README.md
/usr/share/man/man8/targetcli.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/targetclid.8.gz

References

targetcli website

Summary

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