How To Install aespipe on CentOS 8

aespipe is AES-based encryption tool for tar/cpio and loop-aes imagemore

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aespipe on CentOS 8.

What is `aespipe`

aespipe is an encryption tool that reads from standard input and writes to standard output. It uses the AES (Rijndael) cipher. It can be used as an encryption filter, to create and restore encrypted tar/cpio backup archives and to read/write and convert loop-AES compatible encrypted images. aespipe can be used for non-destructive in-place encryption of existing disk partitions for use with the loop-AES encrypted loop-back kernel module.

We can use yum or dnf to install aespipe on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aespipe.

Install aespipe on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install aespipe using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install aespipe

Install aespipe on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install aespipe using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install aespipe

How To Uninstall aespipe on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the aespipe package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove aespipe

aespipe Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/aespipe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/8c6293519c71ac9bad3ed8d2f166381986dbcf
/usr/share/doc/aespipe
/usr/share/doc/aespipe/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/aespipe/README
/usr/share/doc/aespipe/examples
/usr/share/doc/aespipe/examples/bz2aespipe
/usr/share/man/man1/aespipe.1.gz

References

aespipe website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aespipe on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.