Seems installing GCT from epel repo contains no compiled excutable?

[iWangJiaxiang]

Hi guys, I tried to install lasted GCT softwares from EPEL repo.

However, the install packages didn't contains any compiled packages.

Are the packages all src rpm packages?

What is the best practice to install GCT from EPEL repo?

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UPDATE

Environment

OS

NAME="CentOS Linux"
VERSION="7 (Core)"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="7"
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 7 (Core)"
KERNEL_VERSION="3.10.0-957.27.2.el7.x86_64"

The software I installed seems to be part of latest release GCT 6.2.20190906 (maintenance release)

Result of rpm -qa | grep globus:

globus-gsi-callback-6.1-1.el7.x86_64
globus-xio-pipe-driver-4.1-1.el7.x86_64
globus-gsi-openssl-error-4.1-1.el7.x86_64
globus-gssapi-gsi-14.11-1.el7.x86_64
globus-gssapi-error-6.1-1.el7.x86_64
globus-authz-4.3-1.el7.x86_64
globus-common-18.5-1.el7.x86_64
globus-openssl-module-5.1-1.el7.x86_64
globus-gsi-proxy-core-9.4-1.el7.x86_64
globus-proxy-utils-7.1-1.el7.x86_64
globus-xio-6.2-1.el7.x86_64
globus-ftp-control-9.4-1.el7.x86_64
globus-authz-callout-error-4.1-1.el7.x86_64
globus-gss-assist-progs-12.2-1.el7.noarch
globus-gridftp-server-13.20-1.el7.x86_64
globus-gsi-proxy-ssl-6.2-1.el7.x86_64
globus-gsi-credential-8.1-1.el7.x86_64
globus-gss-assist-12.2-1.el7.x86_64
globus-io-12.2-1.el7.x86_64
globus-xio-udt-driver-2.2-1.el7.x86_64
globus-gsi-sysconfig-9.2-3.el7.x86_64
globus-callout-4.2-1.el7.x86_64
globus-xio-gsi-driver-5.2-1.el7.x86_64
globus-gridftp-server-control-9.0-1.el7.x86_64
globus-gsi-cert-utils-10.3-1.el7.x86_64
globus-gfork-5.0-1.el7.x86_64
globus-gsi-cert-utils-progs-10.3-1.el7.noarch
globus-common-progs-18.5-1.el7.x86_64

Note that I didn't install GRAM5. I was testing GridFTP performance.

[matyasselmeci]

Hello,
Which distrubution are you running and which specific globus packages have you installed? What are the results of

rpm -qa | grep globus

?

[iWangJiaxiang]

Thank you @matyasselmeci

I updated the issue detail.

Have you tried to install GCT from EPEL repo?

[matyasselmeci]

I just installed the packages you listed from EPEL, and used the following query to list executables in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin along with their file types:
rpm -qa | grep globus | xargs rpm -ql | grep bin | xargs file | sort
with the result

/usr/bin/globus-domainname:               POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
/usr/bin/globus-hostname:                 POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
/usr/bin/globus-sh-exec:                  POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
/usr/bin/globus-version:                  POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
/usr/bin/grid-cert-diagnostics:           ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=0496402b52e2fd2b61fcf9a79d1fa5e2252b3a26, stripped
/usr/bin/grid-cert-info:                  POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
/usr/bin/grid-cert-request:               POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
/usr/bin/grid-change-pass-phrase:         POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
/usr/bin/grid-proxy-destroy:              ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=b79f5d423f4a749c75ab43fd2b8cd37b80ff51cb, stripped
/usr/bin/grid-proxy-info:                 ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=a3611b1d35e020dea581ed98631e8e1bc845e354, stripped
/usr/bin/grid-proxy-init:                 ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=09ed92cb94cd4449563dfdc9a03c5291fcdd83e4, stripped
/usr/sbin/globus-libc-hostname:           ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=2290b74459ba4735dcd532d3813d6712102a44b4, stripped
/usr/sbin/globus-redia:                   ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=3c0c7e339036374c0b02e87b5795678fe4e72904, stripped
/usr/sbin/globus-update-certificate-dir:  Perl script, ASCII text executable
/usr/sbin/grid-default-ca:                POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
/usr/sbin/grid-mapfile-add-entry:         Perl script, ASCII text executable
/usr/sbin/grid-mapfile-check-consistency: Perl script, ASCII text executable
/usr/sbin/grid-mapfile-delete-entry:      Perl script, ASCII text executable

so there do appear to be binaries.

Many of the executables in Globus/GCT are contained in RPMs ending in -progs. For example, the GridFTP server is contained in "globus-gridftp-server-progs"; globus-url-copy is in "globus-gass-copy-progs". I do not see those in your list, so you might need to install them.

[iWangJiaxiang]

Thank you @matyasselmeci

You just saved my life!

But... Why is globus-gridftp-server-progs package not a dependency of globus-gridftp-server?

By the way, the Installing GCT 6.2 & GCT 6.2 Quickstart docs might need to be updated. If someone is new to GCT, he might never succeed to install GCT Maintenance Release.

[matyasselmeci]

It's the other way around: globus-gridftp-server is the dependency of globus-gridftp-server-progs. globus-gridftp-server contains the shared libraries (.so files) used by GridFTP.

Thanks for reminding us about the documentation -- we have an issue for that in gridcf/gct-docs#14 but it hasn't been touched in a while.