How To Install apg on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apg on Rocky Linux 8.
What is apg
APG (Automated Password Generator) is the tool set for random password generation. This standalone version generates some random words of required type and prints them to standard output.
We can use yum or dnf to install apg on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install apg.
Install apg on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install apg using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install apg
Install apg on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install apg using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install apg
How To Uninstall apg on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the apg package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove apg
apg Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/apg
/usr/bin/apgbfm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/03fa473821a25512bdd618e34f47fae166c121
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/54fccb61070d59b6d2da38cddb5625587d11ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd/ddb4564ce4fb18a758b3b93d026a021161d86c
/usr/lib/systemd/system/apg.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/sbin/apgd
/usr/share/doc/apg
/usr/share/doc/apg/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/apg/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/apg/README
/usr/share/doc/apg/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/apg/TODO
/usr/share/doc/apg/rfc0972.txt
/usr/share/doc/apg/rfc1750.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/apg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/apgbfm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/apgd.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apg on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
