How To Install libkcapi on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libkcapi
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libkcapi
libkcapi allows user-space to access the Linux kernel crypto API. This library uses the netlink interface and exports easy to use APIs so that a developer does not need to consider the low-level netlink interface handling. The library does not implement any cipher algorithms. All consumer requests are sent to the kernel for processing. Results from the kernel crypto API are returned to the consumer via the library API. The kernel interface and therefore this library can be used by unprivileged processes.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libkcapi
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libkcapi.
Install libkcapi 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 libkcapi
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libkcapi
Install libkcapi 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 libkcapi
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libkcapi
How To Uninstall libkcapi on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libkcapi
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libkcapi
libkcapi Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/lib/fipscheck/libkcapi.so.1.2.0.hmac
/lib/fipscheck/libkcapi.so.1.hmac
/lib/libkcapi.so.1
/lib/libkcapi.so.1.2.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/14bbcacaa1ef7ece00fa652ec4ce380ce59d2f
/usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-libkcapi-optmem_max.conf
/usr/share/doc/libkcapi
/usr/share/doc/libkcapi/README.md
/usr/share/doc/libkcapi/README.redhat
/usr/share/licenses/libkcapi
/usr/share/licenses/libkcapi/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libkcapi/COPYING.bsd
/usr/share/licenses/libkcapi/COPYING.gplv2
/lib64/fipscheck/libkcapi.so.1.2.0.hmac
/lib64/fipscheck/libkcapi.so.1.hmac
/lib64/libkcapi.so.1
/lib64/libkcapi.so.1.2.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/558b7dda12b068573004433b078f04c70298e2
/usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-libkcapi-optmem_max.conf
/usr/share/doc/libkcapi
/usr/share/doc/libkcapi/README.md
/usr/share/doc/libkcapi/README.redhat
/usr/share/licenses/libkcapi
/usr/share/licenses/libkcapi/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libkcapi/COPYING.bsd
/usr/share/licenses/libkcapi/COPYING.gplv2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libkcapi
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.