How To Install libusnic_verbs on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libusnic_verbs on CentOS 7.

What is libusnic_verbs

This is now an empty package. Old libibverbs required a dummy plugin for Cisco usNIC devices, while the devices are actually handled via libfabric. The dummy plugin is no longer required, but we need to preserve package upgrade paths, so this empty package exists. You should never need to have this installed though.

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

Install libusnic_verbs on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install libusnic_verbs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libusnic_verbs

Install libusnic_verbs 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 libusnic_verbs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libusnic_verbs

How To Uninstall libusnic_verbs on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the libusnic_verbs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libusnic_verbs

References

• libusnic_verbs website

Summary

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