How To Install nordugrid-arc on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nordugrid-arc on CentOS 7.
What is nordugrid-arc
NorduGrid is a collaboration aiming at development, maintenance and support of the free Grid middleware, known as the Advanced Resource Connector (ARC). The Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) brings computing resources together across institutional boundaries. This concept is commonly referred to as a “computational grid”. Historically, grids address the organization of distributed storage of data and parallel computation, but could be expanded to arbitrary services. Just like the web, ARC has its roots in the IT infrastructure that was erected to analyze the experiments for high energy physics at CERN. The first release, ARC-0.x, was dependent on Globus, the current release keeps that compatibility but can also be used independently.
We can use yum or dnf to install nordugrid-arc on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nordugrid-arc.
Install nordugrid-arc on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install nordugrid-arc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nordugrid-arc
Install nordugrid-arc 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 nordugrid-arc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nordugrid-arc
How To Uninstall nordugrid-arc on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the nordugrid-arc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nordugrid-arc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nordugrid-arc on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
