How To Install globus-net-manager on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install globus-net-manager on Rocky Linux 8.
What is globus-net-manager
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-net-manager package contains Network Manager Library The Globus Neteork Manager Library is a plug-in point for network management tasks, such as - selectively open ports in a firewall and allow these ports to be closed when transfers are complete - configure a virtual circuit based on a site policy and route traffic over this circuit - route network traffic related to a task over a particular network
We can use yum or dnf to install globus-net-manager on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install globus-net-manager.
Install globus-net-manager 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-net-manager using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install globus-net-manager
Install globus-net-manager 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-net-manager using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install globus-net-manager
How To Uninstall globus-net-manager on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the globus-net-manager package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove globus-net-manager
globus-net-manager Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/a72d28e0b386c02e3a3ff5d35ffe9000fc3909
/usr/lib64/libglobus_net_manager.so.0
/usr/lib64/libglobus_net_manager.so.0.1.5
/usr/share/doc/globus-net-manager
/usr/share/doc/globus-net-manager/README
/usr/share/licenses/globus-net-manager
/usr/share/licenses/globus-net-manager/GLOBUS_LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install globus-net-manager on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.