How To Install cmirror on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install cmirror on Rocky Linux 8. cmirror is Daemon for device-mapper-based clustered mirrors

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cmirror on Rocky Linux 8.

What is cmirror

Daemon providing device-mapper-based mirrors in a shared-storage cluster.

We can use yum or dnf to install cmirror on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cmirror.

Install cmirror on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cmirror using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cmirror

Install cmirror on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cmirror using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cmirror

How To Uninstall cmirror on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the cmirror package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cmirror

cmirror Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/60
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/b589563823d5664330d621afdcc9da0f4e2bac
/usr/sbin/cmirrord
/usr/share/man/man8/cmirrord.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cmirror on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.