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

Introduction

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

What is fence-agents-compute

Fence agent for Nova compute nodes.

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

Install fence-agents-compute 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-compute using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fence-agents-compute

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

sudo yum -y install fence-agents-compute

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

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

sudo dnf remove fence-agents-compute

fence-agents-compute Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/sbin/fence_compute
/usr/sbin/fence_evacuate
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_compute.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_evacuate.8.gz

References

• fence-agents-compute website

Summary

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