How To Install tang on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tang on CentOS 8.
What is tang
Tang is a small daemon for binding data to the presence of a third party.
We can use yum or dnf to install tang on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tang.
Install tang 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 tang using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tang
Install tang 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 tang using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tang
How To Uninstall tang on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the tang package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tang
tang Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/tang-show-keys
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/9125e2f903d25bc0696c875a923310ed6c06e6
/usr/lib/systemd/system/tangd.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/libexec/tangd
/usr/libexec/tangd-keygen
/usr/share/licenses/tang
/usr/share/licenses/tang/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/tang-show-keys.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tang.8.gz
/var/db/tang
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tang on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.