How To Install sedutil on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sedutil
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is sedutil
The Drive Trust Alliance software (sedutil) is an Open Source (GPLv3) effort to make Self Encrypting Drive technology freely available to everyone. It is a combination of the two known available Open Source code bases today sedutil is a Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) management program and Pre-Boot Authorization (PBA) image that will allow the activation and use of self encrypting drives that comply with the Trusted Computing Group Opal 2.0 SSC. This package provides the sedutil-cli and linuxpba binaries, but not the PBA image itself.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install sedutil
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sedutil.
Install sedutil 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 sedutil
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sedutil
Install sedutil 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 sedutil
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sedutil
How To Uninstall sedutil on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the sedutil
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sedutil
sedutil Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/7558c0bd1baff5c5eaf485273c306561a09f6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/da381f9fcb79529ce7352cc74168787d21e734
/usr/libexec/linuxpba
/usr/sbin/sedutil-cli
/usr/share/doc/sedutil
/usr/share/doc/sedutil/Copyright.txt
/usr/share/doc/sedutil/PSIDRevert_LINUX.txt
/usr/share/doc/sedutil/README.md
/usr/share/doc/sedutil/ReadMe.txt
/usr/share/licenses/sedutil
/usr/share/licenses/sedutil/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man8/sedutil-cli.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sedutil
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.