How To Install python2-dpm on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-dpm on CentOS 7.

What is python2-dpm

The LCG Disk Pool Manager (DPM) creates a storage element from a set of disks. It provides several interfaces for storing and retrieving data such as HTTP, gridftp and xroot. This package provides Python 2 bindings for the DPM client library.

We can use yum or dnf to install python2-dpm on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python2-dpm.

Install python2-dpm on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install python2-dpm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python2-dpm

Install python2-dpm 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 python2-dpm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python2-dpm

How To Uninstall python2-dpm on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the python2-dpm package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove python2-dpm

References

• python2-dpm website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-dpm on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.