How To Install fabtests on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install fabtests on CentOS 7. fabtests is Test suite for libfabric API

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fabtests on CentOS 7.

What is fabtests

Fabtests provides a set of examples that uses libfabric - a high-performance fabric software library.

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

Install fabtests on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install fabtests using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fabtests

Install fabtests 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 fabtests using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fabtests

How To Uninstall fabtests on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the fabtests package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fabtests

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Summary

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