How To Install xrootd-voms on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xrootd-voms on CentOS 8.
What is xrootd-voms
The VOMS attribute extractor plugin for XRootD.
We can use yum or dnf to install xrootd-voms on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xrootd-voms.
Install xrootd-voms 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 xrootd-voms using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xrootd-voms
Install xrootd-voms 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 xrootd-voms using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xrootd-voms
How To Uninstall xrootd-voms on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the xrootd-voms package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xrootd-voms
xrootd-voms Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/938c9ed495584c9718491cd9331c7098e21991
/usr/lib64/libXrdHttpVOMS-5.so
/usr/lib64/libXrdSecgsiVOMS-5.so
/usr/lib64/libXrdVoms-5.so
/usr/share/man/man1/libXrdSecgsiVOMS.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/libXrdVoms.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xrootd-voms on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.