How To Install ykclient on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ykclient on Rocky Linux 8. ykclient is Yubikey management library and client

Introduction

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

What is `ykclient`

commandline for yubikeys

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

Install ykclient 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 ykclient using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ykclient

Install ykclient 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 ykclient using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ykclient

How To Uninstall ykclient on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove ykclient

ykclient Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/ykclient
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/75
/usr/lib/.build-id/75/98c98791a897390725fb67344fab0ea0504052
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf/70927b4fadc567515dbbd4b281b800f56ec63a
/usr/lib64/libykclient.so.3
/usr/lib64/libykclient.so.3.6.0
/usr/share/doc/ykclient
/usr/share/doc/ykclient/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ykclient/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ykclient/README
/usr/share/licenses/ykclient
/usr/share/licenses/ykclient/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ykclient.1.gz

References

ykclient website

Summary

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