How To Install dpm on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dpm on CentOS 7.
What is dpm
The LCG Disk Pool Manager (DPM) creates a storage element from a set of disks. It provides several interfaces for storing and retrieving data such as HTTP, gridftp and xroot. This package contains the command line interfaces for the DPM.
We can use yum or dnf to install dpm on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dpm.
Install dpm on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install dpm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dpm
Install dpm 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 dpm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dpm
How To Uninstall dpm on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the dpm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dpm
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dpm on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
