How To Install dieharder on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dieharder on CentOS 8.
What is dieharder
dieharder is a fairly involved random number/uniform deviate generator tester. It can either test any of its many pre-built and linked generators (basically all of those in the Gnu Scientific Library plus some others) or a potentially random data-set in a file. With file input, it can manage either a variety of ASCII-formatted input or a raw binary bit string. It is thus suitable for use in testing both software RNG’s and hardware RNG’s. dieharder does all of its work with a standalone, extensible library, libdieharder. Therefore its tests can be integrated into other programs. dieharder encapsulates following random number tests “Diehard” battery of tests, STS (v1.6) from NIST FIPS, Knuth’s tests, and more. Check the documentation for complete list of the tests and references where possible. It is intended to be the “Swiss army knife of random number testers”, or “the last suite of random number testers you’ll ever wear”.
We can use yum or dnf to install dieharder on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dieharder.
Install dieharder 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 dieharder using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dieharder
Install dieharder 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 dieharder using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dieharder
How To Uninstall dieharder on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the dieharder package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dieharder
dieharder Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/dieharder
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/5d1578fd35d753e0ea08eb0c85f8ca0992c192
/usr/share/doc/dieharder
/usr/share/doc/dieharder/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/dieharder/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/dieharder/Copyright
/usr/share/doc/dieharder/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/dieharder/README
/usr/share/doc/dieharder/dieharder.html
/usr/share/doc/dieharder/dieharder.pdf
/usr/share/man/man1/dieharder.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dieharder on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.