How To Install fence-agents-aws on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-aws on Rocky Linux 8. fence-agents-aws is Fence agent for Amazon AWS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-aws on Rocky Linux 8.

What is fence-agents-aws

Fence agent for Amazon AWS instances.

We can use yum or dnf to install fence-agents-aws on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fence-agents-aws.

Install fence-agents-aws on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fence-agents-aws using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fence-agents-aws

Install fence-agents-aws on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fence-agents-aws using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fence-agents-aws

How To Uninstall fence-agents-aws on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the fence-agents-aws package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fence-agents-aws

fence-agents-aws Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/sbin/fence_aws
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_aws.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-aws on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.