How To Install kwalletcli on CentOS 8
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.
