How To Install sscg on CentOS 8

sscg is Simple SSL certificate generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sscg on CentOS 8.

What is sscg

A utility to aid in the creation of more secure “self-signed” certificates. The certificates created by this tool are generated in a way so as to create a CA certificate that can be safely imported into a client machine to trust the service certificate without needing to set up a full PKI environment and without exposing the machine to a risk of false signatures from the service certificate.

We can use yum or dnf to install sscg on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sscg.

Install sscg 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 sscg using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sscg

Install sscg 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 sscg using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sscg

How To Uninstall sscg on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the sscg package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sscg

sscg Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/sscg
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/abe3dc8372017900ac83b8ebb0084b0714b9a3
/usr/share/doc/sscg
/usr/share/doc/sscg/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/sscg
/usr/share/licenses/sscg/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/sscg.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sscg on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.