How To Install dpm-perl on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dpm-perl on CentOS 7.
What is dpm-perl
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 provides Perl bindings for the DPM client library.
We can use yum or dnf to install dpm-perl on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dpm-perl.
Install dpm-perl 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-perl using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dpm-perl
Install dpm-perl 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-perl using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dpm-perl
How To Uninstall dpm-perl on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the dpm-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dpm-perl
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dpm-perl on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
