How To Install qca-ossl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install qca-ossl.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. qca-ossl.x86_64 is OpenSSL plugin for the Qt Cryptographic Architecture v2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qca-ossl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is qca-ossl.x86_64

This is a plugin to provide SSL/TLS capability to programs that use the Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA). QCA is a library providing an easy API for several cryptographic algorithms to Qt programs. This package only contains the TLS plugin.

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

Install qca-ossl.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 qca-ossl.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qca-ossl.x86_64

How To Uninstall qca-ossl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the qca-ossl.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove qca-ossl.x86_64

qca-ossl.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/qt4/plugins/crypto/libqca-ossl.so
/usr/share/doc/qca-ossl-2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/qca-ossl-2.0.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/qca-ossl-2.0.0/README

References

Summary

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