How To Install fence-agents-common on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-common on CentOS 8. fence-agents-common is Common base for Fence Agents

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-common on CentOS 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 CentOS 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 CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install fence-agents-common

Install fence-agents-common on CentOS 8 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 fence-agents-common using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fence-agents-common

How To Uninstall fence-agents-common on CentOS 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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.