How To Install nss-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install nss-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. nss-tools.x86_64 is Tools for the Network Security Services

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nss-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `nss-tools.x86_64`

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security standards. Install the nss-tools package if you need command-line tools to manipulate the NSS certificate and key database.

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

Install nss-tools.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 nss-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nss-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall nss-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the nss-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove nss-tools.x86_64

nss-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/certutil
/usr/bin/cmsutil
/usr/bin/crlutil
/usr/bin/modutil
/usr/bin/nss-policy-check
/usr/bin/pk12util
/usr/bin/signver
/usr/bin/ssltap
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/atob
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/btoa
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/derdump
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/listsuites
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/ocspclnt
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/pp
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/selfserv
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/signtool
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/strsclnt
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/symkeyutil
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/tstclnt
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/vfychain
/usr/lib64/nss/unsupported-tools/vfyserv
/usr/share/man/man1/certutil.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cmsutil.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/crlutil.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/derdump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/modutil.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nss-policy-check.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pk12util.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/signtool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/signver.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ssltap.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vfychain.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vfyserv.1.gz

References

nss-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

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