How To Install dpm-libs on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install dpm-libs on CentOS 7. dpm-libs is Disk Pool Manager (DPM) libraries

Introduction

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

What is dpm-libs

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 run time DPM client library.

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

Install dpm-libs 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-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dpm-libs

Install dpm-libs 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-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dpm-libs

How To Uninstall dpm-libs on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove dpm-libs

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Summary

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