How To Install drobo-utils on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install drobo-utils on CentOS 7. drobo-utils is Utilities for managing Drobo storage systems

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install drobo-utils on CentOS 7.

What is drobo-utils

Drobo-utils is a set of Linux tools to query and manage Data Robotics Drobo storage systems (Drobos). This base package provides the command line utility.

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

Install drobo-utils on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install drobo-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install drobo-utils

Install drobo-utils 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 drobo-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install drobo-utils

How To Uninstall drobo-utils on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the drobo-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove drobo-utils

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Summary

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