How To Install edg-gridftp-client on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install edg-gridftp-client on CentOS 7. edg-gridftp-client is Command line clients to GridFTP libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install edg-gridftp-client on CentOS 7.

What is edg-gridftp-client

The edg-gridftp-client package is a thin command line interface on top of the GridFTP libraries supplied by Globus. They do, however, represent a useful set of commands to do basic management of files on a GridFTP server. The commands provided are edg-gridftp-exists test if a file/directory exists on the server edg-gridftp-mkdir create a directory on the server edg-gridftp-rmdir remove a directory from a server edg-gridftp-rm remove a file from a server edg-gridftp-ls list files/directories on a server edg-gridftp-rename rename a file/directory on a server

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

Install edg-gridftp-client on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install edg-gridftp-client using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install edg-gridftp-client

Install edg-gridftp-client 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 edg-gridftp-client using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install edg-gridftp-client

How To Uninstall edg-gridftp-client on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the edg-gridftp-client package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove edg-gridftp-client

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install edg-gridftp-client on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.