How To Install stoken-cli on CentOS 8

stoken-cli is Command line tool for stoken

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install stoken-cli on CentOS 8.

What is stoken-cli

Software Token for Linux/UNIX. It’s a token code generator compatible with RSA SecurID 128-bit (AES) tokens. It is a hobbyist project, not affiliated with or endorsed by RSA Security. This package contains the command line tool for stoken.

We can use yum or dnf to install stoken-cli on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stoken-cli.

Install stoken-cli on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install stoken-cli using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install stoken-cli

Install stoken-cli on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install stoken-cli using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install stoken-cli

How To Uninstall stoken-cli on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the stoken-cli package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove stoken-cli

stoken-cli Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/stoken
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/366a571ee7ae277527b7018ab1e95ab7af6273
/usr/share/man/man1/stoken.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install stoken-cli on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.