How To Install easy-rsa on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install easy-rsa on CentOS 8.
What is easy-rsa
This is a small RSA key management package, based on the openssl command line tool, that can be found in the easy-rsa subdirectory of the OpenVPN distribution. While this tool is primary concerned with key management for the SSL VPN application space, it can also be used for building web certificates.
We can use yum or dnf to install easy-rsa on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install easy-rsa.
Install easy-rsa 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 easy-rsa using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install easy-rsa
Install easy-rsa 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 easy-rsa using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install easy-rsa
How To Uninstall easy-rsa on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the easy-rsa package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove easy-rsa
easy-rsa Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/doc/easy-rsa
/usr/share/doc/easy-rsa/COPYING.md
/usr/share/doc/easy-rsa/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/easy-rsa/README.md
/usr/share/doc/easy-rsa/README.quickstart.md
/usr/share/doc/easy-rsa/vars.example
/usr/share/easy-rsa
/usr/share/easy-rsa/3
/usr/share/easy-rsa/3.0
/usr/share/easy-rsa/3.0.8
/usr/share/easy-rsa/3.0.8/easyrsa
/usr/share/easy-rsa/3.0.8/openssl-easyrsa.cnf
/usr/share/easy-rsa/3.0.8/x509-types
/usr/share/easy-rsa/3.0.8/x509-types/COMMON
/usr/share/easy-rsa/3.0.8/x509-types/ca
/usr/share/easy-rsa/3.0.8/x509-types/client
/usr/share/easy-rsa/3.0.8/x509-types/code-signing
/usr/share/easy-rsa/3.0.8/x509-types/email
/usr/share/easy-rsa/3.0.8/x509-types/kdc
/usr/share/easy-rsa/3.0.8/x509-types/server
/usr/share/easy-rsa/3.0.8/x509-types/serverClient
/usr/share/licenses/easy-rsa
/usr/share/licenses/easy-rsa/gpl-2.0.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install easy-rsa on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.