How To Install kwalletcli on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kwalletcli
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is kwalletcli
A command-line interface to the KDE Wallet, for KDE 4 and KF5 (so shell scripts, Python, etc. do not need to use DCOP or D-Bus directly to access it to store passwords, instead being able to call this convenient wrapper). KF5 does come with a kwallet-query utility, however, it requires the caller to know the name of the default wallet, which most scripts won’t know, and lacks kwalletcli’s extra utilities.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install kwalletcli
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kwalletcli.
Install kwalletcli 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 kwalletcli
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kwalletcli
Install kwalletcli 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 kwalletcli
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kwalletcli
How To Uninstall kwalletcli on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the kwalletcli
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kwalletcli
kwalletcli Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/kwalletaskpass
/usr/bin/kwalletcli
/usr/bin/kwalletcli_getpin
/usr/bin/pinentry-kwallet
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/00e3c44690591efb45ae8c52d9ab5768d78d48
/usr/share/licenses/kwalletcli
/usr/share/licenses/kwalletcli/LICENCE
/usr/share/man/man1/kwalletaskpass.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/kwalletcli.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/kwalletcli_getpin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pinentry-kwallet.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kwalletcli
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.