How To Install sedutil on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sedutil on CentOS 8.
What is sedutil
The Drive Trust Alliance software (sedutil) is an Open Source (GPLv3) effort to make Self Encrypting Drive technology freely available to everyone. It is a combination of the two known available Open Source code bases today sedutil is a Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) management program and Pre-Boot Authorization (PBA) image that will allow the activation and use of self encrypting drives that comply with the Trusted Computing Group Opal 2.0 SSC. This package provides the sedutil-cli and linuxpba binaries, but not the PBA image itself.
We can use yum or dnf to install sedutil on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sedutil.
Install sedutil 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 sedutil using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sedutil
Install sedutil 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 sedutil using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sedutil
How To Uninstall sedutil on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the sedutil package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sedutil
sedutil Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/7558c0bd1baff5c5eaf485273c306561a09f6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/da381f9fcb79529ce7352cc74168787d21e734
/usr/libexec/linuxpba
/usr/sbin/sedutil-cli
/usr/share/doc/sedutil
/usr/share/doc/sedutil/Copyright.txt
/usr/share/doc/sedutil/PSIDRevert_LINUX.txt
/usr/share/doc/sedutil/README.md
/usr/share/doc/sedutil/ReadMe.txt
/usr/share/licenses/sedutil
/usr/share/licenses/sedutil/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man8/sedutil-cli.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sedutil on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.