How To Install glusterfs-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install glusterfs-libs on Rocky Linux 8. glusterfs-libs is GlusterFS common libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install glusterfs-libs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `glusterfs-libs`

GlusterFS is a distributed file-system capable of scaling to several petabytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. GlusterFS is one of the most sophisticated file systems in terms of features and extensibility. It borrows a powerful concept called Translators from GNU Hurd kernel. Much of the code in GlusterFS is in user space and easily manageable. This package provides the base GlusterFS libraries

We can use yum or dnf to install glusterfs-libs on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install glusterfs-libs.

Install glusterfs-libs 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 glusterfs-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install glusterfs-libs

Install glusterfs-libs 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 glusterfs-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glusterfs-libs

How To Uninstall glusterfs-libs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the glusterfs-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove glusterfs-libs

glusterfs-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/4c71f15e47c051c93ddc13e21e1a82bc5537d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/5f05864b0c5bf973127e969e4074d41c1ad67f
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/51817c8b94144bc8789ff372b1e7bcf3b53e63
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/191018408607ae16d631fb961345a5dbe6d450
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/49621a3a9b7819e020028abef641c27958a96a
/usr/lib64/libgfchangelog.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgfchangelog.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib64/libgfrpc.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgfrpc.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib64/libgfxdr.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgfxdr.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib64/libglusterfs.so.0
/usr/lib64/libglusterfs.so.0.0.1

References

glusterfs-libs website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install glusterfs-libs on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.