How To Install ucx-ib on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ucx-ib on Rocky Linux 8. ucx-ib is UCX RDMA support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ucx-ib on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `ucx-ib`

Provides support for IBTA-compliant transports for UCX. This includes RoCE, InfiniBand, OmniPath, and any other transport supported by IB Verbs API. Typically these transports provide RDMA support, which enables a fast and hardware-offloaded data transfer.

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

Install ucx-ib 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 ucx-ib using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ucx-ib

Install ucx-ib 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 ucx-ib using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ucx-ib

How To Uninstall ucx-ib on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the ucx-ib package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ucx-ib

ucx-ib Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/22a7175ca539fff5546d426e5c6c5f974d3ee9
/usr/lib64/ucx/libuct_ib.so.0
/usr/lib64/ucx/libuct_ib.so.0.0.0

References

ucx-ib website

Summary

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