How To Install voms-clients-java on Fedora 36

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

Introduction

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

What is `voms-clients-java`

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 the Java version of the command line clients for VOMS voms-proxy-init, voms-proxy-destroy and voms-proxy-info.

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

Install voms-clients-java 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-java using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install voms-clients-java

Install voms-clients-java 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-java using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install voms-clients-java

How To Uninstall voms-clients-java on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove voms-clients-java

voms-clients-java Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/voms-proxy-destroy
/usr/bin/voms-proxy-destroy3
/usr/bin/voms-proxy-info
/usr/bin/voms-proxy-info3
/usr/bin/voms-proxy-init
/usr/bin/voms-proxy-init3
/usr/share/doc/voms-clients-java
/usr/share/doc/voms-clients-java/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/voms-clients-java/README.md
/usr/share/java/voms-clients-java
/usr/share/java/voms-clients-java/voms-clients.jar
/usr/share/licenses/voms-clients-java
/usr/share/licenses/voms-clients-java/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/voms-proxy-destroy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voms-proxy-destroy3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voms-proxy-info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voms-proxy-info3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voms-proxy-init.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voms-proxy-init3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/vomsdir.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/vomses.5.gz
/usr/share/maven-metadata/voms-clients-java.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/voms-clients-java
/usr/share/maven-poms/voms-clients-java/voms-clients.pom

References

voms-clients-java website

Summary

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