How To Install jose.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install jose.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. jose.x86_64 is Tools for JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE)

Introduction

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

What is `jose.x86_64`

José is a command line utility for performing various tasks on JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) objects. José provides a full crypto stack including key generation, signing and encryption.

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

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

sudo yum -y install jose.x86_64

How To Uninstall jose.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove jose.x86_64

jose.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/jose
/usr/share/man/man1/jose-alg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jose-b64-dec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jose-b64-enc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jose-fmt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jose-jwe-dec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jose-jwe-enc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jose-jwe-fmt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jose-jwk-exc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jose-jwk-gen.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jose-jwk-pub.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jose-jwk-thp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jose-jwk-use.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jose-jws-fmt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jose-jws-sig.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jose-jws-ver.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jose.1.gz

References

jose.x86_64 website

Summary

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