How To Install globus-gfork on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install globus-gfork on Rocky Linux 8.
What is globus-gfork
The Grid Community Toolkit (GCT) is an open source software toolkit used for building grid systems and applications. It is a fork of the Globus Toolkit originally created by the Globus Alliance. It is supported by the Grid Community Forum (GridCF) that provides community-based support for core software packages in grid computing. The globus-gfork package contains GFork Library
We can use yum or dnf to install globus-gfork on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install globus-gfork.
Install globus-gfork 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 globus-gfork using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install globus-gfork
Install globus-gfork 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 globus-gfork using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install globus-gfork
How To Uninstall globus-gfork on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the globus-gfork package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove globus-gfork
globus-gfork Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/e3a3a63a5f42b3f5bd9552a4316c609227b256
/usr/lib64/libglobus_gfork.so.0
/usr/lib64/libglobus_gfork.so.0.5.0
/usr/share/doc/globus-gfork
/usr/share/doc/globus-gfork/README
/usr/share/licenses/globus-gfork
/usr/share/licenses/globus-gfork/GLOBUS_LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install globus-gfork on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.