How To Install fsverity-utils on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fsverity-utils on Rocky Linux 8. fsverity-utils is fsverity utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fsverity-utils on Rocky Linux 8.

What is fsverity-utils

This is fsverity, a userspace utility for fs-verity. fs-verity is a Linux kernel feature that does transparent on-demand integrity/authenticity verification of the contents of read-only files, using a hidden Merkle tree (hash tree) associated with the file. The mechanism is similar to dm-verity, but implemented at the file level rather than at the block device level. The fsverity utility allows you to set up fs-verity protected files.

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

Install fsverity-utils 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 fsverity-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fsverity-utils

Install fsverity-utils 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 fsverity-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fsverity-utils

How To Uninstall fsverity-utils on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the fsverity-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fsverity-utils

fsverity-utils Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/fsverity
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/4593ab9b46d3b14ea15c42cdb65c40f093eda8
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/97907b23fed69334ef41580c6d06ab21bc06cf
/usr/lib64/libfsverity.so.0
/usr/share/doc/fsverity-utils
/usr/share/doc/fsverity-utils/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/fsverity-utils
/usr/share/licenses/fsverity-utils/LICENSE

References

Summary

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