How To Install fipscheck on Rocky Linux 8
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.