How To Install coolkey.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install coolkey.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. coolkey.x86_64 is CoolKey PKCS #11 module

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install coolkey.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `coolkey.x86_64`

Linux Driver support for the CoolKey and CAC products.

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

Install coolkey.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 coolkey.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install coolkey.x86_64

How To Uninstall coolkey.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the coolkey.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove coolkey.x86_64

coolkey.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/pk11install
/usr/lib64/libckyapplet.so.1
/usr/lib64/libckyapplet.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/libcoolkeypk11.so
/usr/lib64/pkcs11
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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