How To Install voms-devel on CentOS 8

voms-devel is Virtual Organization Membership Service Development Files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install voms-devel on CentOS 8.

What is voms-devel

The Virtual Organization Membership Service (VOMS) is an attribute authority which serves as central repository for VO user authorization information, providing support for sorting users into group hierarchies, keeping track of their roles and other attributes in order to issue trusted attribute certificates and SAML assertions used in the Grid environment for authorization purposes. This package provides header files for programming with the VOMS libraries.

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

Install voms-devel 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 voms-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install voms-devel

Install voms-devel 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 voms-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install voms-devel

How To Uninstall voms-devel on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the voms-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove voms-devel

voms-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/voms
/usr/include/voms/acstack.h
/usr/include/voms/newformat.h
/usr/include/voms/voms_api.h
/usr/include/voms/voms_apic.h
/usr/include/voms/vomsproxy.h
/usr/include/voms/vomsssl.h
/usr/lib64/libvomsapi.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/voms-2.0.pc
/usr/share/aclocal/voms.m4
/usr/share/man/man3/voms.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/voms_api.h.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/voms_apic.h.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/vomsdata.3.gz

References

Summary

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