How To Install nvmetcli.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install nvmetcli.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. nvmetcli.noarch is An adminstration shell for NVMe storage targets

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nvmetcli.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is nvmetcli.noarch

This package contains the command line interface to the NVMe over Fabrics nvmet in the Linux kernel. It allows configuring the nvmet interactively as well as saving / restoring the configuration to / from a json file.

We can use yum to install nvmetcli.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nvmetcli.noarch.

Install nvmetcli.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install nvmetcli.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nvmetcli.noarch

How To Uninstall nvmetcli.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the nvmetcli.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove nvmetcli.noarch

nvmetcli.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/nvmet
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nvmet
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nvmet/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nvmet/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nvmet/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nvmet/nvme.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nvmet/nvme.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nvmet/nvme.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nvmet/test_nvmet.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nvmet/test_nvmet.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nvmet/test_nvmet.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nvmetcli-0.5-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nvmetcli-0.5-py2.7.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nvmetcli-0.5-py2.7.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nvmetcli-0.5-py2.7.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nvmetcli-0.5-py2.7.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/systemd/system/nvmet.service
/usr/sbin/nvmetcli
/usr/share/doc/nvmetcli-0.5
/usr/share/doc/nvmetcli-0.5/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nvmetcli-0.5/README
/usr/share/man/man8/nvmetcli.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nvmetcli.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.