How To Install gfal2 on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gfal2 on CentOS 7.
What is gfal2
GFAL 2.0 offers an a single and simple POSIX-like API for the file operations in grids and cloud environments. The set of supported protocols depends of the gfal2 installed plugins.
We can use yum or dnf to install gfal2 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gfal2.
Install gfal2 on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install gfal2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gfal2
Install gfal2 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 gfal2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gfal2
How To Uninstall gfal2 on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the gfal2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gfal2
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gfal2 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.