How To Install infiniband-diags on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install infiniband-diags on AlmaLinux 8.
What is infiniband-diags
This package provides IB diagnostic programs and scripts needed to diagnose an IB subnet. infiniband-diags now also provides libibmad. libibmad provides low layer IB functions for use by the IB diagnostic and management programs. These include MAD, SA, SMP, and other basic IB functions.
We can use yum or dnf to install infiniband-diags on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install infiniband-diags.
Install infiniband-diags on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install infiniband-diags using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install infiniband-diags
Install infiniband-diags on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install infiniband-diags using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install infiniband-diags
How To Uninstall infiniband-diags on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the infiniband-diags package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove infiniband-diags
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install infiniband-diags on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.