How To Install nss-tools on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install nss-tools in Fedora 36. nss-tools is Tools for the Network Security Services

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nss-tools on Fedora 36.

What is nss-tools

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security standards. Install the nss-tools package if you need command-line tools to manipulate the NSS certificate and key database.

We can use yum or dnf to install nss-tools on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nss-tools.

Install nss-tools on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install nss-tools

Install nss-tools on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install nss-tools

How To Uninstall nss-tools on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the nss-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nss-tools

nss-tools Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/certutil
/usr/bin/cmsutil
/usr/bin/crlutil
/usr/bin/modutil
/usr/bin/nss-policy-check
/usr/bin/pk12util
/usr/bin/signver
/usr/bin/ssltap
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/4c1d67b689c9f6a93133b455e902bc6b25b443
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/0578d6764bbc18fa248697324a1be3935aab1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/ff9a8be5871a8b848cb51d8d0fcbec2401fb03
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/4255256a0672f7d622063eede6fe3db1a7021d
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/4b06154f465b5f72ae8e91f8c9da517049c07f
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/b924db3e19b57224c1f7b65aa97f008272a9bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/9249673d63535e3e47cd2a17ca476f0abe2c9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/92d1df7be103d5ed29c1da0fbc384322d1d839
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/117ad56e7114c1bcac3cde10eeda63d1a88cb0
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/f8acc8d4b741cf1edcae3ae846d12b55053f2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/806a400881b318426ece035aee69cc592887c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/8c45fb9d6e923ce0b6597408c5a9d8309b2378
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/01a33c3179f35f66b058355cc7867a54e548ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/70d6d17f0880ffcda45beacc8e31e4d974a4f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/0855348c72b8c1e0d778c12786c94626e1c5d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/bcbda06e5592663621cbf91613ce168d4fe896
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/28a47a4a5b91125f2598f560fdf2aece4c903d
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/934670dbe53edecf207eb81ad57ee0ec0d9e6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5/76ae6f8ccd61bbc0ad6d9d5da3b9cc8d808afa
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/ed80d16638c1499a68819faa6ad3dcc3de3fe5
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/4ee6567665b950b8471860ccc432cabe4dcac5
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/atob
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/btoa
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/derdump
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/listsuites
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/ocspclnt
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/pp
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/selfserv
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/signtool
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/strsclnt
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/symkeyutil
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/tstclnt
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/vfychain
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/vfyserv
/usr/share/doc/nss-tools
/usr/share/doc/nss-tools/pp.1
/usr/share/man/man1/certutil.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cmsutil.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/crlutil.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/derdump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/modutil.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pk12util.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/signtool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/signver.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ssltap.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vfychain.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vfyserv.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nss-tools on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).