How To Install coolkey.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install coolkey.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. coolkey.i686 is CoolKey PKCS #11 module

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install coolkey.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `coolkey.i686`

Linux Driver support for the CoolKey and CAC products.

We can use yum to install coolkey.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install coolkey.i686.

Install coolkey.i686 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 coolkey.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install coolkey.i686

How To Uninstall coolkey.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the coolkey.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove coolkey.i686

coolkey.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/pk11install
/usr/lib/libckyapplet.so.1
/usr/lib/libckyapplet.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libcoolkeypk11.so
/usr/lib/pkcs11
/usr/lib/pkcs11/libcoolkeypk11.so
/usr/share/doc/coolkey-1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/coolkey-1.1.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/coolkey-1.1.0/LICENSE
/usr/share/p11-kit/modules/coolkey.module
/var/cache/coolkey

References

coolkey.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install coolkey.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.