How To Install lcmaps-devel on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lcmaps-devel on CentOS 7.
What is lcmaps-devel
The Local Centre MAPping Service (LCMAPS) is a security middleware component that processes the users Grid credentials (typically X.509 proxy certificates and VOMS attributes) and maps the user to a local account based on the site local policy. It is a highly configurable pluggable interface, and many plugins are available to tailor almost every need. Since this is middleware, it does not interact with the user directly; to use it in a program please see the lcmaps-interface package. This package contains the files necessary to compile and link against the LCMAPS library.
We can use yum or dnf to install lcmaps-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lcmaps-devel.
Install lcmaps-devel on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install lcmaps-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lcmaps-devel
Install lcmaps-devel 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 lcmaps-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lcmaps-devel
How To Uninstall lcmaps-devel on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the lcmaps-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lcmaps-devel
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lcmaps-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
