How To Install orangefs-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install orangefs-devel on Rocky Linux 8. orangefs-devel is Parallel network file system development libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install orangefs-devel on Rocky Linux 8.

What is orangefs-devel

OrangeFS (formerly PVFS2) is a high-performance parallel network file system designed for use on high performance computing systems. It provides very high performance access to disk storage for parallel applications. It is accessible through a variety of interfaces, including the native OrangeFS library, the kernel, FUSE, and MPI-IO. This package provides the pvfs2-client-core which is required to use the kernel module. This package contains the headers and libraries necessary for client development.

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

Install orangefs-devel 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 orangefs-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install orangefs-devel

Install orangefs-devel 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 orangefs-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install orangefs-devel

How To Uninstall orangefs-devel on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the orangefs-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove orangefs-devel

orangefs-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/pvfs2-config
/usr/include/orange.h
/usr/include/pvfs2-compat.h
/usr/include/pvfs2-debug.h
/usr/include/pvfs2-encode-stubs.h
/usr/include/pvfs2-hint.h
/usr/include/pvfs2-mgmt.h
/usr/include/pvfs2-mirror.h
/usr/include/pvfs2-request.h
/usr/include/pvfs2-sysint.h
/usr/include/pvfs2-types.h
/usr/include/pvfs2-usrint.h
/usr/include/pvfs2-util.h
/usr/include/pvfs2.h
/usr/lib64/libpvfs2.so

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Summary

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