How To Install fence-agents-lpar on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-lpar on CentOS 7. fence-agents-lpar is Fence agent for IBM LPAR

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-lpar on CentOS 7.

What is fence-agents-lpar

The fence-agents-lpar package contains a fence agent for IBM LPAR devices that are accessed via telnet or SSH.

We can use yum or dnf to install fence-agents-lpar on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fence-agents-lpar.

Install fence-agents-lpar on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install fence-agents-lpar

Install fence-agents-lpar on CentOS 7 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-lpar using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fence-agents-lpar

How To Uninstall fence-agents-lpar on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove fence-agents-lpar

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-lpar on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.