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