How To Install cryptsetup-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install cryptsetup-libs on Rocky Linux 8. cryptsetup-libs is Cryptsetup shared library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cryptsetup-libs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is cryptsetup-libs

This package contains the cryptsetup shared library, libcryptsetup.

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

Install cryptsetup-libs 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 cryptsetup-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cryptsetup-libs

Install cryptsetup-libs 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 cryptsetup-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cryptsetup-libs

How To Uninstall cryptsetup-libs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the cryptsetup-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cryptsetup-libs

cryptsetup-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/run/cryptsetup
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/61882af4ecd6f1894d8650c097f00f53d2fe53
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/cryptsetup.conf
/usr/lib64/libcryptsetup.so.12
/usr/lib64/libcryptsetup.so.12.6.0
/usr/share/licenses/cryptsetup-libs
/usr/share/licenses/cryptsetup-libs/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/cryptsetup-libs/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/run/cryptsetup
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/ffb7b99c908a6dd45e1ebaee3a18b9f7918676
/usr/lib/libcryptsetup.so.12
/usr/lib/libcryptsetup.so.12.6.0
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/cryptsetup.conf
/usr/share/licenses/cryptsetup-libs
/usr/share/licenses/cryptsetup-libs/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/cryptsetup-libs/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/cryptsetup.mo

References

Summary

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