How To Install clevis-luks.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis-luks.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. clevis-luks.x86_64 is LUKSv1 integration for clevis

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis-luks.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `clevis-luks.x86_64`

LUKSv1 integration for clevis. This package allows you to bind a LUKSv1 volume to a clevis unlocking policy. For automated unlocking, an unlocker will also be required. See, for example, clevis-dracut and clevis-udisks2.

We can use yum to install clevis-luks.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clevis-luks.x86_64.

Install clevis-luks.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install clevis-luks.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install clevis-luks.x86_64

How To Uninstall clevis-luks.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the clevis-luks.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove clevis-luks.x86_64

clevis-luks.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/clevis-bind-luks
/usr/bin/clevis-luks-bind
/usr/bin/clevis-luks-unlock
/usr/share/man/man1/clevis-bind-luks.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clevis-luks-bind.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clevis-luks-unlock.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clevis-luks-unlockers.1.gz

References

clevis-luks.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis-luks.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.