How To Install mpssh on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install mpssh on Rocky Linux 8. mpssh is Parallel ssh tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mpssh on Rocky Linux 8.

What is mpssh

mpssh is a parallel ssh tool. What it does is connecting to a number of hosts specified in the hosts file and execute the same command on all of them

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

Install mpssh 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 mpssh using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mpssh

Install mpssh 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 mpssh using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mpssh

How To Uninstall mpssh on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove mpssh

mpssh Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/mpssh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/f5f8b9eb10fed3838940d12c12bc6eb55728dd
/usr/share/doc/mpssh
/usr/share/doc/mpssh/README
/usr/share/licenses/mpssh
/usr/share/licenses/mpssh/copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/mpssh.1.gz

References

Summary

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