How To Install gnome-keyring-pam.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-keyring-pam.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gnome-keyring-pam.x86_64 is Pam module for unlocking keyrings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-keyring-pam.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `gnome-keyring-pam.x86_64`

The gnome-keyring-pam package contains a pam module that can automatically unlock the “login” keyring when the user logs in.

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

Install gnome-keyring-pam.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 gnome-keyring-pam.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-keyring-pam.x86_64

How To Uninstall gnome-keyring-pam.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gnome-keyring-pam.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gnome-keyring-pam.x86_64

gnome-keyring-pam.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/security/pam_gnome_keyring.so

References

gnome-keyring-pam.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-keyring-pam.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.