How To Install bouncycastle-pg on CentOS 8

bouncycastle-pg is Bouncy Castle OpenPGP API

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bouncycastle-pg on CentOS 8.

What is bouncycastle-pg

The Bouncy Castle Java API for handling the OpenPGP protocol. This jar contains the OpenPGP API for JDK 1.5 to JDK 1.8. The APIs can be used in conjunction with a JCE/JCA provider such as the one provided with the Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs.

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

Install bouncycastle-pg 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 bouncycastle-pg using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bouncycastle-pg

Install bouncycastle-pg 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 bouncycastle-pg using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bouncycastle-pg

How To Uninstall bouncycastle-pg on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the bouncycastle-pg package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bouncycastle-pg

bouncycastle-pg Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/java/bcpg.jar
/usr/share/licenses/bouncycastle-pg
/usr/share/licenses/bouncycastle-pg/LICENSE.html
/usr/share/maven-metadata/bouncycastle-bcpg.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/bcpg.pom

References

Summary

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