How To Install kwalletcli on CentOS 8

kwalletcli is CLI for the KDE Wallet

Introduction

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

What is kwalletcli

A command-line interface to the KDE Wallet, for KDE 4 and KF5 (so shell scripts, Python, etc. do not need to use DCOP or D-Bus directly to access it to store passwords, instead being able to call this convenient wrapper). KF5 does come with a kwallet-query utility, however, it requires the caller to know the name of the default wallet, which most scripts won\u2019t know, and lacks kwalletcli\u2019s extra utilities.

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

Install kwalletcli 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 kwalletcli using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kwalletcli

Install kwalletcli 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 kwalletcli using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kwalletcli

How To Uninstall kwalletcli on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove kwalletcli

kwalletcli Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/kwalletaskpass
/usr/bin/kwalletcli
/usr/bin/kwalletcli_getpin
/usr/bin/pinentry-kwallet
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/00e3c44690591efb45ae8c52d9ab5768d78d48
/usr/share/licenses/kwalletcli
/usr/share/licenses/kwalletcli/LICENCE
/usr/share/man/man1/kwalletaskpass.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/kwalletcli.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/kwalletcli_getpin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pinentry-kwallet.1.gz

References

Summary

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