How To Install keepass on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install keepass on Rocky Linux 8. keepass is Password manager

Introduction

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

What is keepass

KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to remember your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. You only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database.

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

Install keepass 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 keepass using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install keepass

Install keepass 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 keepass using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install keepass

How To Uninstall keepass on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove keepass

keepass Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/keepass
/usr/lib/keepass
/usr/lib/keepass/KeePass.config.xml
/usr/lib/keepass/KeePass.exe
/usr/lib/keepass/KeePass.exe.config
/usr/share/appdata/keepass.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/keepass.desktop
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/keepass/History.txt
/usr/share/doc/keepass/License.txt
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/keepass.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/keepass.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/keepass.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/keepass.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/keepass.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/keepass.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/keepass.png
/usr/share/keepass
/usr/share/keepass/XSL
/usr/share/keepass/XSL/KDBX_Common.xsl
/usr/share/keepass/XSL/KDBX_DetailsFull_HTML.xsl
/usr/share/keepass/XSL/KDBX_DetailsLight_HTML.xsl
/usr/share/keepass/XSL/KDBX_PasswordsOnly_TXT.xsl
/usr/share/keepass/XSL/KDBX_Tabular_HTML.xsl
/usr/share/man/man1/keepass.1.gz
/usr/share/mime/packages/keepass.xml

References

Summary

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