How To Install voms-clients-cpp on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install voms-clients-cpp in Fedora 36. voms-clients-cpp is Virtual Organization Membership Service Clients

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install voms-clients-cpp on Fedora 36.

What is `voms-clients-cpp`

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 command line applications to access the VOMS services.

We can use yum or dnf to install voms-clients-cpp on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install voms-clients-cpp.

Install voms-clients-cpp on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install voms-clients-cpp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install voms-clients-cpp

Install voms-clients-cpp on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install voms-clients-cpp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install voms-clients-cpp

How To Uninstall voms-clients-cpp on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove voms-clients-cpp

voms-clients-cpp Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/voms-proxy-destroy
/usr/bin/voms-proxy-destroy2
/usr/bin/voms-proxy-fake
/usr/bin/voms-proxy-info
/usr/bin/voms-proxy-info2
/usr/bin/voms-proxy-init
/usr/bin/voms-proxy-init2
/usr/bin/voms-proxy-list
/usr/bin/voms-verify
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/d9e43f9195276f0c453cf298b84431b9d89c51
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/259647aa8ea50b646916b6b8d099d12269254d
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/6224fd298e6e806eba8033d13cc0f90a4bfc9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/b01fdf77be358b01d34a2b63df1aa055ba6d83
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/6f9b994e5bd149854f338ec698e1705ac1366d
/usr/share/man/man1/voms-proxy-destroy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voms-proxy-destroy2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voms-proxy-fake.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voms-proxy-info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voms-proxy-info2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voms-proxy-init.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voms-proxy-init2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voms-proxy-list.1.gz

References

voms-clients-cpp website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install voms-clients-cpp on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).