How To Install yubibomb on Fedora 34

yubibomb is Rust command line tool that prints out a 6-digit random number

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yubibomb on Fedora 34.

What is yubibomb

Don’t you love when you accidentally tap your Yubikey when you have your IRC client in focus and you send 987947 into Freenode? Want to be able to have that experience without having to reach all the way over to your laptop’s USB port? Now you can!.

We can use yum or dnf to install yubibomb on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install yubibomb.

Install yubibomb on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install yubibomb

Install yubibomb on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install yubibomb using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yubibomb

How To Uninstall yubibomb on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the yubibomb package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove yubibomb

yubibomb Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/yubibomb
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/f88d29902307db322d9d7b3889bcde2bc57e3b
/usr/share/doc/yubibomb
/usr/share/doc/yubibomb/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/yubibomb
/usr/share/licenses/yubibomb/LICENSE
/usr/bin/yubibomb
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/58ed70e557061480a1fddbc0c126b8a536c299
/usr/share/doc/yubibomb
/usr/share/doc/yubibomb/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/yubibomb
/usr/share/licenses/yubibomb/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install yubibomb on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.