How To Install smaclient on CentOS 7
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.