How To Install yubico-piv-tool on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yubico-piv-tool on CentOS 8.
What is yubico-piv-tool
The Yubico PIV tool is used for interacting with the Privilege and Identification Card (PIV) applet on a YubiKey. With it you may generate keys on the device, importing keys and certificates, and create certificate requests, and other operations. A shared library and a command-line tool is included.
We can use yum or dnf to install yubico-piv-tool on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install yubico-piv-tool.
Install yubico-piv-tool 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 yubico-piv-tool using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install yubico-piv-tool
Install yubico-piv-tool 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 yubico-piv-tool using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install yubico-piv-tool
How To Uninstall yubico-piv-tool on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the yubico-piv-tool package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove yubico-piv-tool
yubico-piv-tool Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/yubico-piv-tool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/bf91c688981e1ff39cabcae0181e1e7fdbe62f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c/27fcef271e4664d9610ee3bc44316cabd65b1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/c5f15c7be33e6c01fc8b840a1f62b5cc71a143
/usr/lib64/libykcs11.so.2
/usr/lib64/libykcs11.so.2.2.0
/usr/lib64/libykpiv.so.2
/usr/lib64/libykpiv.so.2.2.0
/usr/share/licenses/yubico-piv-tool
/usr/share/licenses/yubico-piv-tool/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/yubico-piv-tool.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yubico-piv-tool on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.