How To Install gfal2 on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gfal2 on Rocky Linux 8.
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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gfal2.
Install gfal2 on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install gfal2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gfal2
Install gfal2 on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install gfal2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gfal2
How To Uninstall gfal2 on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the gfal2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gfal2
gfal2 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/gfal2.d
/etc/gfal2.d/bdii.conf
/etc/gfal2.d/gfal2_core.conf
/etc/gfal2.d/x509.conf
/usr/bin/gfal2_version
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/7f172e1ff489677d2de014240d4b4b8ca3df33
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9/9106734253e71287e992d6c84468abd0175f0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd/4da07c1b09854e00c9c7e632d96b3f89e1a3fb
/usr/lib64/gfal2-plugins
/usr/lib64/libgfal2.so.2
/usr/lib64/libgfal2.so.2.18.2
/usr/lib64/libgfal_transfer.so.2
/usr/lib64/libgfal_transfer.so.2.18.2
/usr/share/doc/gfal2
/usr/share/doc/gfal2/DESCRIPTION
/usr/share/doc/gfal2/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/gfal2/README.md
/usr/share/doc/gfal2/RELEASE-NOTES
/usr/share/man/man1/gfal2_version.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gfal2 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.