How To Install bouncycastle-mail on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bouncycastle-mail
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is bouncycastle-mail
The Bouncy Castle Java S/MIME APIs for handling S/MIME protocols. This jar contains S/MIME APIs for JDK 1.5 to JDK 1.8. The APIs can be used in conjunction with a JCE/JCA provider such as the one provided with the Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs. The JavaMail API and the Java activation framework will also be needed.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install bouncycastle-mail
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bouncycastle-mail.
Install bouncycastle-mail 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 bouncycastle-mail
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bouncycastle-mail
Install bouncycastle-mail 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 bouncycastle-mail
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bouncycastle-mail
How To Uninstall bouncycastle-mail on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the bouncycastle-mail
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bouncycastle-mail
bouncycastle-mail Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/share/java/bcmail.jar
/usr/share/licenses/bouncycastle-mail
/usr/share/licenses/bouncycastle-mail/LICENSE.html
/usr/share/maven-metadata/bouncycastle-bcmail.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/bcmail.pom
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bouncycastle-mail
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.