How To Install gnome-keyring on CentOS 8

gnome-keyring is Framework for managing passwords and other secrets

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-keyring on CentOS 8.

What is `gnome-keyring`

The gnome-keyring session daemon manages passwords and other types of secrets for the user, storing them encrypted with a main password. Applications can use the gnome-keyring library to integrate with the keyring.

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

Install gnome-keyring 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 gnome-keyring using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-keyring

Install gnome-keyring 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 gnome-keyring using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-keyring

How To Uninstall gnome-keyring on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the gnome-keyring package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gnome-keyring

gnome-keyring Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-secrets.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop
/usr/bin/gnome-keyring
/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-3
/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/ba9685e9efd4c01056b46d06778d821d6f0fa0
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/f84afd938e57a784e0cbb242fed87ed65d5c97
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/0dedca1c298ef1e96bfe002daf3ae0c9d71a8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/83
/usr/lib/.build-id/83/7c515145890531c3f62484f7c633e86cb8a325
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/ebe6b3134f468995d4552245fdbd070243dcb5
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed/30f078560e2f76bdc9d2ed5e750db0d40894dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/77351681b778843f3ed67cebde90bdfaa003ae
/usr/lib64/gnome-keyring
/usr/lib64/gnome-keyring/devel
/usr/lib64/gnome-keyring/devel/gkm-gnome2-store-standalone.so
/usr/lib64/gnome-keyring/devel/gkm-secret-store-standalone.so
/usr/lib64/gnome-keyring/devel/gkm-ssh-store-standalone.so
/usr/lib64/gnome-keyring/devel/gkm-xdg-store-standalone.so
/usr/lib64/pkcs11
/usr/lib64/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so
/usr/share/GConf/gsettings/org.gnome.crypto.cache.convert
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.secrets.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.keyring.service
/usr/share/doc/gnome-keyring
/usr/share/doc/gnome-keyring/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gnome-keyring/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gnome-keyring/README
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.crypto.cache.gschema.xml
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-keyring
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-keyring/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-keyring/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@shaw/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/mg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-keyring-3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-keyring-daemon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-keyring.1.gz

References

gnome-keyring website

Summary

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