How To Install rpki-client on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rpki-client on CentOS 8.
What is rpki-client
The OpenBSD rpki-client is a free, easy-to-use implementation of the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) for Relying Parties (RP) to facilitate validation of the Route Origin of a BGP announcement. The program queries the RPKI repository system, downloads and validates Route Origin Authorisations (ROAs) and finally outputs Validated ROA Payloads (VRPs) in the configuration format of OpenBGPD, BIRD, and also as CSV or JSON objects for consumption by other routing stacks.
We can use yum or dnf to install rpki-client on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rpki-client.
Install rpki-client 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 rpki-client using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rpki-client
Install rpki-client 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 rpki-client using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rpki-client
How To Uninstall rpki-client on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the rpki-client package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rpki-client
rpki-client Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/pki/tals
/etc/pki/tals/afrinic.tal
/etc/pki/tals/apnic.tal
/etc/pki/tals/lacnic.tal
/etc/pki/tals/ripe.tal
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/71
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/db5d8d80087820970eddd2506b9a88d5510f05
/usr/sbin/rpki-client
/usr/share/doc/rpki-client
/usr/share/doc/rpki-client/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rpki-client/README.md
/usr/share/doc/rpki-client/TALs.md
/usr/share/licenses/rpki-client
/usr/share/licenses/rpki-client/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/rpki-client.8.gz
/var/cache/rpki-client
/var/lib/rpki-client
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rpki-client on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
