How To Install gfal2-plugin-srm on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gfal2-plugin-srm on Debian 9.

What is gfal2-plugin-srm

gfal2-plugin-srm is:

Provides the srm support (srm://) for gfal2. The srm plugin provides the POSIX operations and the third party transfer support on the SRM URLs.

There are three methods to install gfal2-plugin-srm on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gfal2-plugin-srm Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gfal2-plugin-srm using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gfal2-plugin-srm

Install gfal2-plugin-srm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gfal2-plugin-srm using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gfal2-plugin-srm

Install gfal2-plugin-srm Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gfal2-plugin-srm using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gfal2-plugin-srm

How To Uninstall gfal2-plugin-srm on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove gfal2-plugin-srm

Uninstall gfal2-plugin-srm And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gfal2-plugin-srm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gfal2-plugin-srm

Remove gfal2-plugin-srm Configurations and Data

To remove gfal2-plugin-srm configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gfal2-plugin-srm

Remove gfal2-plugin-srm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gfal2-plugin-srm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gfal2-plugin-srm

Dependencies

gfal2-plugin-srm have the following dependencies:

• libgfal2-2
• libgfal-transfer2
• libgfal-srm-ifce1
• libc6
• libglib2.0-0
• libglobus-common0
• libglobus-gss-assist3
• libglobus-gssapi-gsi4
• libldap-2.4-2
• libstdc++6

References

• gfal2-plugin-srm website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gfal2-plugin-srm package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.