How To Install smaclient on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install smaclient on CentOS 7. smaclient is Provides access to z/VM System Management functions

Introduction

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

What is smaclient

smaclient is a tool which provides a line-mode interface to the z/VM System Management API (SMAPI) for most Unix-compatible systems such as Linux. Smaclient can exercise all the VM management interfaces to create, modify and destroy virtual machines without ever logging into z/VM.

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

Install smaclient on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install smaclient

Install smaclient 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 smaclient using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install smaclient

How To Uninstall smaclient on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove smaclient

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Summary

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