How To Install swtpm-libs on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swtpm-libs on CentOS 8.
What is swtpm-libs
A private library with callback functions for libtpms based swtpm TPM emulator
We can use yum or dnf to install swtpm-libs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install swtpm-libs.
Install swtpm-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 swtpm-libs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install swtpm-libs
Install swtpm-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 swtpm-libs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install swtpm-libs
How To Uninstall swtpm-libs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the swtpm-libs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove swtpm-libs
swtpm-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d/b0fbc1c22f28a4604523fada76f35423fd1d1b
/usr/lib64/swtpm
/usr/lib64/swtpm/libswtpm_libtpms.so.0
/usr/lib64/swtpm/libswtpm_libtpms.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/swtpm-libs
/usr/share/doc/swtpm-libs/README
/usr/share/licenses/swtpm-libs
/usr/share/licenses/swtpm-libs/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swtpm-libs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.