How To Install fipscheck on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fipscheck on Rocky Linux 8. fipscheck is A library for integrity verification of FIPS validated modules

Introduction

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

What is fipscheck

FIPSCheck is a library for integrity verification of FIPS validated modules. The package also provides helper binaries for creation and verification of the HMAC-SHA256 checksum files.

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

Install fipscheck 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 fipscheck using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fipscheck

Install fipscheck 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 fipscheck using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fipscheck

How To Uninstall fipscheck on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove fipscheck

fipscheck Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/fipscheck
/usr/bin/fipshmac
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/c256e32663704cdba526844e74ab6dba9295d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/5caa52e1acec2d6d6481078213d4e75f458e51
/usr/lib64/fipscheck/fipscheck.hmac
/usr/share/doc/fipscheck
/usr/share/doc/fipscheck/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fipscheck/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fipscheck/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/fipscheck/README
/usr/share/licenses/fipscheck
/usr/share/licenses/fipscheck/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/fipscheck.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fipshmac.8.gz

References

Summary

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