How To Install openscap-scanner on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openscap-scanner
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is openscap-scanner
The openscap-scanner package contains oscap command-line tool. The oscap is configuration and vulnerability scanner, capable of performing compliance checking using SCAP content.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install openscap-scanner
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install openscap-scanner.
Install openscap-scanner 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 openscap-scanner
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install openscap-scanner
Install openscap-scanner 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 openscap-scanner
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install openscap-scanner
How To Uninstall openscap-scanner on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the openscap-scanner
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove openscap-scanner
openscap-scanner Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/bash_completion.d
/etc/bash_completion.d/oscap
/usr/bin/oscap
/usr/bin/oscap-chroot
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/4ae23bf50ab4c9bec3c625cf76ac870143aa0d
/usr/share/man/man8/oscap-chroot.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/oscap.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openscap-scanner
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.