How To Install gfal2-plugin-rfio on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install gfal2-plugin-rfio on CentOS 7. gfal2-plugin-rfio is Provides the rfio support for gfal2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gfal2-plugin-rfio on CentOS 7.

What is gfal2-plugin-rfio

Provides the rfio support (rfio The rfio plugin provides the POSIX operations for the rfio URLs, the rfio protocol is used on the DPM and on the Castor storage systems.

We can use yum or dnf to install gfal2-plugin-rfio on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gfal2-plugin-rfio.

Install gfal2-plugin-rfio 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-plugin-rfio using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gfal2-plugin-rfio

Install gfal2-plugin-rfio 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-plugin-rfio using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gfal2-plugin-rfio

How To Uninstall gfal2-plugin-rfio on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the gfal2-plugin-rfio package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gfal2-plugin-rfio

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gfal2-plugin-rfio on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.