How To Install fence-agents-common on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-common on AlmaLinux 8.
What is fence-agents-common
A collection of executables to handle isolation (“fencing”) of possibly misbehaving hosts by the means of remote power management, blocking network, storage, or similar. This package contains support files including the Python fencing library.
We can use yum or dnf to install fence-agents-common on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fence-agents-common.
Install fence-agents-common on AlmaLinux 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-common using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fence-agents-common
Install fence-agents-common on AlmaLinux 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-common using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fence-agents-common
How To Uninstall fence-agents-common on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the fence-agents-common package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fence-agents-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-common on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
