How To Install pakchois on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pakchois on CentOS 8.
What is pakchois
pakchois is just another PKCS#11 wrapper library. pakchois aims to provide a thin wrapper over the PKCS#11 interface; offering a modern object-oriented C interface which does not hide any of the underlying interface, and avoids dependencies on any cryptography toolkit. pakchois 0.4 17.el8 x86_64 20 k pakchois-0.4-17.el8.src.rpm appstream A wrapper library for PKCS#11 http LGPLv2+ pakchois is just another PKCS#11 wrapper library. pakchois aims to provide a thin wrapper over the PKCS#11 interface; offering a modern object-oriented C interface which does not hide any of the underlying interface, and avoids dependencies on any cryptography toolkit.
We can use yum or dnf to install pakchois on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pakchois.
Install pakchois 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 pakchois using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pakchois
Install pakchois 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 pakchois using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pakchois
How To Uninstall pakchois on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the pakchois package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pakchois
pakchois Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/30d4875d71a927cd4f6e1b412d9302dc5ef88e
/usr/lib/libpakchois.so.0
/usr/lib/libpakchois.so.0.1.0
/usr/share/doc/pakchois
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/17
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/72fd8ce32db244fce7e4e035ff20225a13d965
/usr/lib64/libpakchois.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpakchois.so.0.1.0
/usr/share/doc/pakchois
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/README
References
- [pakchois website](http://www.manyfish.co.uk/pakchois/ http://www.manyfish.co.uk/pakchois/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pakchois on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
