How To Install dpm-contrib-admintools on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install dpm-contrib-admintools on CentOS 7. dpm-contrib-admintools is DPM administration toolkit (contrib from GridPP)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dpm-contrib-admintools on CentOS 7.

What is dpm-contrib-admintools

This package provides a set of additional administration tools for the Disk Pool Manager (DPM) service. They provide easy to use commands to perform common sysadmin operations.

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

Install dpm-contrib-admintools 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-contrib-admintools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dpm-contrib-admintools

Install dpm-contrib-admintools 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-contrib-admintools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dpm-contrib-admintools

How To Uninstall dpm-contrib-admintools on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the dpm-contrib-admintools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dpm-contrib-admintools

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dpm-contrib-admintools on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.