How To Install stoken-libs on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stoken-libs on CentOS 8.
What is stoken-libs
Software Token for Linux/UNIX. It’s a token code generator compatible with RSA SecurID 128-bit (AES) tokens. It is a hobbyist project, not affiliated with or endorsed by RSA Security. This package contains stoken libraries.
We can use yum or dnf to install stoken-libs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stoken-libs.
Install stoken-libs 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 stoken-libs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install stoken-libs
Install stoken-libs 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 stoken-libs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install stoken-libs
How To Uninstall stoken-libs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the stoken-libs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove stoken-libs
stoken-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/aee97a1ae54af0d717a7c2bc3fbabafd4da070
/usr/lib64/libstoken.so.1
/usr/lib64/libstoken.so.1.3.0
/usr/share/doc/stoken-libs
/usr/share/doc/stoken-libs/CHANGES
/usr/share/licenses/stoken-libs
/usr/share/licenses/stoken-libs/COPYING.LIB
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stoken-libs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.