How To Install trousers-lib on CentOS 8

trousers-lib is TrouSerS libtspi library TrouSerS libtspi library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install trousers-lib on CentOS 8.

What is trousers-lib

The libtspi library for use in Trusted Computing enabled applications. trousers-lib 0.3.15 1.el8 x86_64 168 k trousers-0.3.15-1.el8.src.rpm baseos TrouSerS libtspi library http BSD The libtspi library for use in Trusted Computing enabled applications.

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

Install trousers-lib 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 trousers-lib using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install trousers-lib

Install trousers-lib 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 trousers-lib using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install trousers-lib

How To Uninstall trousers-lib on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the trousers-lib package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove trousers-lib

trousers-lib Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/06d4ad89ee5331db022057795951a108bf325f
/usr/lib/libtspi.so.1
/usr/lib/libtspi.so.1.2.0
/usr/share/licenses/trousers-lib
/usr/share/licenses/trousers-lib/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/447ffdd4e4aa9dbda4e296b2ed7d7a43bf6e16
/usr/lib64/libtspi.so.1
/usr/lib64/libtspi.so.1.2.0
/usr/share/licenses/trousers-lib
/usr/share/licenses/trousers-lib/LICENSE

References

Summary

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