How To Install liboath on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboath on Rocky Linux 8. liboath is Library for OATH handling

Introduction

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

What is liboath

OATH stands for Open AuTHentication, which is the organization that specify the algorithms. Supported technologies include the event-based HOTP algorithm (RFC4226) and the time-based TOTP algorithm (RFC6238).

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

Install liboath 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 liboath using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install liboath

Install liboath 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 liboath using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install liboath

How To Uninstall liboath on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove liboath

liboath Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/liboath
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/54
/usr/lib/.build-id/54/56963d36ecb84fa41a175fbb3cbc72e1bf1ea9
/usr/lib64/liboath.so.0
/usr/lib64/liboath.so.0.1.3
/usr/share/doc/liboath
/usr/share/doc/liboath/COPYING

References

Summary

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