How To Install voms-clients-cpp on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install voms-clients-cpp on CentOS 7. voms-clients-cpp is Virtual Organization Membership Service Clients

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install voms-clients-cpp on CentOS 7.

What is voms-clients-cpp

The Virtual Organization Membership Service (VOMS) is an attribute authority which serves as central repository for VO user authorization information, providing support for sorting users into group hierarchies, keeping track of their roles and other attributes in order to issue trusted attribute certificates and SAML assertions used in the Grid environment for authorization purposes. This package provides command line applications to access the VOMS services.

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

Install voms-clients-cpp on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install voms-clients-cpp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install voms-clients-cpp

Install voms-clients-cpp 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 voms-clients-cpp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install voms-clients-cpp

How To Uninstall voms-clients-cpp on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the voms-clients-cpp package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove voms-clients-cpp

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install voms-clients-cpp on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.