How To Install sscg.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install sscg.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. sscg.x86_64 is Simple SSL certificate generator

Introduction

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

What is `sscg.x86_64`

A utility to aid in the creation of more secure “self-signed” certificates. The certificates created by this tool are generated in a way so as to create a CA certificate that can be safely imported into a client machine to trust the service certificate without needing to set up a full PKI environment and without exposing the machine to a risk of false signatures from the service certificate.

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

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

sudo yum -y install sscg.x86_64

How To Uninstall sscg.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove sscg.x86_64

sscg.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/sscg
/usr/share/doc/sscg-2.3.3
/usr/share/doc/sscg-2.3.3/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/sscg-2.3.3
/usr/share/licenses/sscg-2.3.3/COPYING

References

sscg.x86_64 website

Summary

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