How To Install luksmeta on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install luksmeta on CentOS 8.
What is luksmeta
LUKSMeta is a command line utility for storing small portions of metadata in the LUKSv1 header for use before unlocking the volume.
We can use yum or dnf to install luksmeta on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install luksmeta.
Install luksmeta 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 luksmeta using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install luksmeta
Install luksmeta 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 luksmeta using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install luksmeta
How To Uninstall luksmeta on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the luksmeta package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove luksmeta
luksmeta Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/luksmeta
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/03a99c799e6c5f2619c6a232c403f8e31ba428
/usr/share/man/man8/luksmeta.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install luksmeta on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.