perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Tom Throckmorton <>]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Hummel, Homer (173D-Affiliate) <> wrote:

I was intrigued by the FAQ at http://www.perfsonar.net/about/faq/

Q:How do I use the NDT command line client (web100clt)?

 

However, I downloaded software.internet2.edu/sources/ndt/ndt-3.6.5.2.tar.gz and when after unzipping and untaring it, I looked at the README and INSTALL files, and it looked like that tar package was for building an NDT server.  I want just the command line client (web100clt) for Linux.

 

I successfully installed the ‘bwctl’ tool as instructed at http://psps.perfsonar.net/toolkit/start.html and since it involved the install of some dependency RPMs, I thought I might be able to just continue with the install of ‘web100clt’ as shown by the terminal snippet below:

 

[root@sqa-lg04 tmp]# ls

epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm      link2ndt

install_perfsonar.bash           ndt-3.6.5.2

Internet2-repo-0.2-8.noarch.rpm  ndt-3.6.5.2.tar.gz

[root@sqa-lg04 tmp]# yum ^C

[root@sqa-lg04 tmp]#

[root@sqa-lg04 tmp]# pwd

/var/tmp

[root@sqa-lg04 tmp]# yum install web100clt

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security

Determining fastest mirrors

epel/metalink                                            |  11 kB     00:00    

 * epel: mirrors.kernel.org

Internet2                                                |  951 B     00:00    

Internet2/primary                                        |  34 kB     00:00    

Internet2                                                               139/139

epel                                                     | 4.4 kB     00:00    

Setting up Install Process

No package web100clt available.

Error: Nothing to do

[root@sqa-lg04 tmp]#

 

But that did not work, so my question is: How may I install the client only ‘web100clt’ on CentOS 6.4 ?

Homer, web100clt is included in the 'ndt-client' package, so you should be able to 'yum install ndt-client'

yum tip; If you're trying to locate a package based on a specific file, try the provides option, for example:

% yum provides "*/web100clt"

cheers,

-tt