How To Install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit on CentOS 7.

What is device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit

SysV style init script for device-mapper-multipth. It needs to be installed only if systemd is not used as the system init process.

We can use yum or dnf to install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit.

Install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit

Install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit

How To Uninstall device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit

References

• device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.