How To Install fipscheck on CentOS 8

fipscheck is A library for integrity verification of FIPS validated modules

Introduction

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

What is fipscheck

FIPSCheck is a library for integrity verification of FIPS validated modules. The package also provides helper binaries for creation and verification of the HMAC-SHA256 checksum files.

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

Install fipscheck 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 fipscheck using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fipscheck

Install fipscheck 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 fipscheck using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fipscheck

How To Uninstall fipscheck on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove fipscheck

fipscheck Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/fipscheck
/usr/bin/fipshmac
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/1780b8b611c93956feee2031768dab46571490
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/fbe0f3d9dbbea2845d25383ff8756e2f544054
/usr/lib64/fipscheck/fipscheck.hmac
/usr/share/doc/fipscheck
/usr/share/doc/fipscheck/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fipscheck/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fipscheck/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/fipscheck/README
/usr/share/licenses/fipscheck
/usr/share/licenses/fipscheck/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/fipscheck.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fipshmac.8.gz

References

Summary

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