How To Install gnutls-dane.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnutls-dane.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gnutls-dane.x86_64 is A DANE protocol implementation for GnuTLS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnutls-dane.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `gnutls-dane.x86_64`

GnuTLS is a secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS and DTLS protocols and technologies around them. It provides a simple C language application programming interface (API) to access the secure communications protocols as well as APIs to parse and write X.509, PKCS #12, OpenPGP and other required structures. This package contains library that implements the DANE protocol for verifying TLS certificates through DNSSEC.

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

Install gnutls-dane.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 gnutls-dane.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnutls-dane.x86_64

How To Uninstall gnutls-dane.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gnutls-dane.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gnutls-dane.x86_64

gnutls-dane.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libgnutls-dane.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgnutls-dane.so.0.5.0

References

gnutls-dane.x86_64 website

Summary

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