How To Install cryptsetup-reencrypt on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cryptsetup-reencrypt on CentOS 8.
What is cryptsetup-reencrypt
This package contains cryptsetup-reencrypt utility which can be used for offline reencryption of disk in situ.
We can use yum or dnf to install cryptsetup-reencrypt on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cryptsetup-reencrypt.
Install cryptsetup-reencrypt 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 cryptsetup-reencrypt using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cryptsetup-reencrypt
Install cryptsetup-reencrypt 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 cryptsetup-reencrypt using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cryptsetup-reencrypt
How To Uninstall cryptsetup-reencrypt on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cryptsetup-reencrypt package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cryptsetup-reencrypt
cryptsetup-reencrypt Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/4cfbf2585a86439b54daf8489caae57bbf0b14
/usr/sbin/cryptsetup-reencrypt
/usr/share/doc/cryptsetup-reencrypt
/usr/share/doc/cryptsetup-reencrypt/dracut_90reencrypt
/usr/share/doc/cryptsetup-reencrypt/dracut_90reencrypt/README
/usr/share/doc/cryptsetup-reencrypt/dracut_90reencrypt/check.old
/usr/share/doc/cryptsetup-reencrypt/dracut_90reencrypt/install.old
/usr/share/doc/cryptsetup-reencrypt/dracut_90reencrypt/module-setup.sh
/usr/share/doc/cryptsetup-reencrypt/dracut_90reencrypt/parse-reencrypt.sh
/usr/share/doc/cryptsetup-reencrypt/dracut_90reencrypt/reencrypt-verbose.sh
/usr/share/doc/cryptsetup-reencrypt/dracut_90reencrypt/reencrypt.sh
/usr/share/licenses/cryptsetup-reencrypt
/usr/share/licenses/cryptsetup-reencrypt/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/cryptsetup-reencrypt.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cryptsetup-reencrypt on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.