How To Install pwgen on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pwgen on CentOS 8.
What is pwgen
pwgen generates random, meaningless but pronounceable passwords. These passwords contain either only lowercase letters, or upper and lower case, or upper case, lower case and numeric digits. Upper case letters and numeric digits are placed in a way that eases memorizing the password.
We can use yum or dnf to install pwgen on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pwgen.
Install pwgen 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 pwgen using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pwgen
Install pwgen 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 pwgen using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pwgen
How To Uninstall pwgen on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the pwgen package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pwgen
pwgen Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/pwgen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/715fb1c2cd6da87f4cf1e389688e05d682f050
/usr/share/doc/pwgen
/usr/share/doc/pwgen/changelog
/usr/share/licenses/pwgen
/usr/share/licenses/pwgen/copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/pwgen.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pwgen on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.