How To Install qatengine on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qatengine on CentOS 8.
What is qatengine
This package provides the Intel QuickAssist Technology OpenSSL Engine (an OpenSSL Plug-In Engine) which provides cryptographic acceleration for both hardware and optimized software using Intel QuickAssist Technology enabled Intel platforms.
We can use yum or dnf to install qatengine on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qatengine.
Install qatengine 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 qatengine using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qatengine
Install qatengine 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 qatengine using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qatengine
How To Uninstall qatengine on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the qatengine package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qatengine
qatengine Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/2a465ad3bcb04cead9e4154114afb5451c02b3
/usr/lib64/engines-1.1/qatengine.so
/usr/share/doc/qatengine
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/qatengine
/usr/share/licenses/qatengine/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/qatengine/LICENSE.OPENSSL
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qatengine on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
