How To Install gearmand on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gearmand on AlmaLinux 8.
What is gearmand
Gearman provides a generic framework to farm out work to other machines or dispatch function calls to machines that are better suited to do the work. It allows you to do work in parallel, to load balance processing, and to call functions between languages. It can be used in a variety of applications, from high-availability web sites to the transport for database replication. In other words, it is the nervous system for how distributed processing communicates.
We can use yum or dnf to install gearmand on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gearmand.
Install gearmand 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 gearmand using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gearmand
Install gearmand 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 gearmand using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gearmand
How To Uninstall gearmand on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the gearmand package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gearmand
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gearmand on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
