How To Install gridsite-clients on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install gridsite-clients on CentOS 7. gridsite-clients is Clients to gridsite including htcp, htrm, htmv

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gridsite-clients on CentOS 7.

What is gridsite-clients

GridSite was originally a web application developed for managing and formatting the content of the http website. Over the past years it has grown into a set of extensions to the Apache web server and a toolkit for Grid credentials, GACL access control lists and HTTP(S) protocol operations. This package gridsite-clients, contains clients for using against gridsite, htcp, htrm, …

We can use yum or dnf to install gridsite-clients on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gridsite-clients.

Install gridsite-clients on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install gridsite-clients using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gridsite-clients

Install gridsite-clients on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install gridsite-clients using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gridsite-clients

How To Uninstall gridsite-clients on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the gridsite-clients package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gridsite-clients

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gridsite-clients on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.