How To Install beecrypt on CentOS 8

beecrypt is An open source cryptography library

Introduction

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

What is `beecrypt`

BeeCrypt is an ongoing project to provide a strong and fast cryptography toolkit. Includes entropy sources, random generators, block ciphers, hash functions, message authentication codes, multiprecision integer routines and public key primitives.

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

Install beecrypt 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 beecrypt using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install beecrypt

Install beecrypt 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 beecrypt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install beecrypt

How To Uninstall beecrypt on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove beecrypt

beecrypt Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/3b05152658e50df721b762f009d57cedcf0822
/usr/lib64/libbeecrypt.so.7
/usr/lib64/libbeecrypt.so.7.0.0
/usr/share/doc/beecrypt
/usr/share/doc/beecrypt/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/beecrypt/BENCHMARKS
/usr/share/doc/beecrypt/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/doc/beecrypt/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/beecrypt/README
/usr/share/licenses/beecrypt
/usr/share/licenses/beecrypt/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/beecrypt/COPYING.LIB

References

beecrypt website

Summary

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