How To Install safelease on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install safelease on Fedora 34.
What is safelease
Safelease is a legacy cluster lock utility used by VDSM. It is based on the algorithm presented in the article “Light-Weight Leases for Storage-Centric Coordination” by G Chockler and D Malkhi.
We can use yum or dnf to install safelease on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install safelease.
Install safelease on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install safelease using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install safelease
Install safelease on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install safelease using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install safelease
How To Uninstall safelease on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the safelease package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove safelease
safelease Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d/8c0b9e2ff84716bbbfac7c8cbed42e5e3f8464
/usr/libexec/safelease
/usr/libexec/safelease/safelease
/usr/share/doc/safelease
/usr/share/doc/safelease/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/safelease/README
/usr/share/licenses/safelease
/usr/share/licenses/safelease/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install safelease on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
