How To Install voms-mysql-plugin on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install voms-mysql-plugin on Fedora 36.
What is voms-mysql-plugin
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 offers the MySQL implementation for the VOMS server.
We can use yum or dnf to install voms-mysql-plugin on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install voms-mysql-plugin.
Install voms-mysql-plugin 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-mysql-plugin using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install voms-mysql-plugin
Install voms-mysql-plugin 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-mysql-plugin using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install voms-mysql-plugin
How To Uninstall voms-mysql-plugin on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the voms-mysql-plugin package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove voms-mysql-plugin
voms-mysql-plugin Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d/9cd0d21d0b0efc0cb18d90af1c8f2b9adb0e5c
/usr/lib64/voms
/usr/lib64/voms/libvomsmysql.so
/usr/share/voms/voms-mysql-compat.data
/usr/share/voms/voms-mysql.data
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install voms-mysql-plugin on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
