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

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

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-common on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 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-common using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fence-agents-common

Install fence-agents-common 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-common using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fence-agents-common

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

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

sudo dnf remove fence-agents-common

fence-agents-common Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/cluster
/usr/share/cluster/relaxng
/usr/share/cluster/relaxng/fence.rng.head
/usr/share/cluster/relaxng/fence.rng.tail
/usr/share/cluster/relaxng/fence2man.xsl
/usr/share/cluster/relaxng/fence2rng.xsl
/usr/share/cluster/relaxng/fence2wiki.xsl
/usr/share/cluster/relaxng/metadata.rng
/usr/share/doc/fence-agents-common
/usr/share/doc/fence-agents-common/COPYING.applications
/usr/share/doc/fence-agents-common/COPYING.libraries
/usr/share/doc/fence-agents-common/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/fence-agents-common/README.licence
/usr/share/fence
/usr/share/fence/__pycache__
/usr/share/fence/__pycache__/fencing.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/share/fence/__pycache__/fencing.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/share/fence/__pycache__/fencing_snmp.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/share/fence/__pycache__/fencing_snmp.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/share/fence/fencing.py
/usr/share/fence/fencing_snmp.py

References

fence-agents-common website

Summary

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