How To Install ucx-ib on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ucx-ib on CentOS 8.
What is ucx-ib
Provides support for IBTA-compliant transports for UCX. This includes RoCE, InfiniBand, OmniPath, and any other transport supported by IB Verbs API. Typically these transports provide RDMA support, which enables a fast and hardware-offloaded data transfer.
We can use yum or dnf to install ucx-ib on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ucx-ib.
Install ucx-ib 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 ucx-ib using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ucx-ib
Install ucx-ib 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 ucx-ib using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ucx-ib
How To Uninstall ucx-ib on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ucx-ib package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ucx-ib
ucx-ib Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/8dba3bc756b1fcdab601ffe782af20e2089b3e
/usr/lib64/ucx/libuct_ib.so.0
/usr/lib64/ucx/libuct_ib.so.0.0.0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ucx-ib on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.