How To Install beecrypt on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install beecrypt on Rocky Linux 8. beecrypt is An open source cryptography library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install beecrypt on Rocky Linux 8.

What is beecrypt

BeeCrypt is an ongoing project to provide a strong and fast cryptography toolkit. Includes entropy sources, random generators, block ciphers, hash functions, message authentication codes, multiprecision integer routines and public key primitives.

We can use yum or dnf to install beecrypt on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install beecrypt.

Install beecrypt 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 beecrypt using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install beecrypt

Install beecrypt 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 beecrypt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install beecrypt

How To Uninstall beecrypt on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove beecrypt

beecrypt Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/3b05152658e50df721b762f009d57cedcf0822
/usr/lib64/libbeecrypt.so.7
/usr/lib64/libbeecrypt.so.7.0.0
/usr/share/doc/beecrypt
/usr/share/doc/beecrypt/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/beecrypt/BENCHMARKS
/usr/share/doc/beecrypt/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/doc/beecrypt/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/beecrypt/README
/usr/share/licenses/beecrypt
/usr/share/licenses/beecrypt/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/beecrypt/COPYING.LIB

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install beecrypt on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.