How To Install pakchois.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pakchois.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pakchois.x86_64 is A wrapper library for PKCS#11

Introduction

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

What is `pakchois.x86_64`

pakchois is just another PKCS#11 wrapper library. pakchois aims to provide a thin wrapper over the PKCS#11 interface; offering a modern object-oriented C interface which does not hide any of the underlying interface, and avoids dependencies on any cryptography toolkit.

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

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

sudo yum -y install pakchois.x86_64

How To Uninstall pakchois.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove pakchois.x86_64

pakchois.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libpakchois.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpakchois.so.0.1.0
/usr/share/doc/pakchois-0.4
/usr/share/doc/pakchois-0.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pakchois-0.4/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pakchois-0.4/README

References

pakchois.x86_64 website

Summary

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