How To Install yubico-piv-tool-devel on CentOS 8

yubico-piv-tool-devel is Tool for interacting with the PIV applet on a YubiKey

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yubico-piv-tool-devel on CentOS 8.

What is yubico-piv-tool-devel

The Yubico PIV tool is used for interacting with the Privilege and Identification Card (PIV) applet on a YubiKey. This package includes development files.

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

Install yubico-piv-tool-devel 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-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install yubico-piv-tool-devel

Install yubico-piv-tool-devel 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-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yubico-piv-tool-devel

How To Uninstall yubico-piv-tool-devel on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the yubico-piv-tool-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove yubico-piv-tool-devel

yubico-piv-tool-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/ykpiv
/usr/include/ykpiv/ykpiv-config.h
/usr/include/ykpiv/ykpiv.h
/usr/lib64/libykcs11.so
/usr/lib64/libykpiv.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/ykcs11.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/ykpiv.pc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install yubico-piv-tool-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.