How To Install age on Fedora 34

age is Simple, modern and secure encryption tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install age on Fedora 34.

What is age

A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

We can use yum or dnf to install age on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install age.

Install age on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install age using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install age

Install age on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install age using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install age

How To Uninstall age on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the age package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove age

age Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/age
/usr/bin/age-keygen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/1912893151d4cc5d3f5e85abb195925fc03415
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/ca3b2d1ba157cfe597994feca3ed076b3ad43e
/usr/share/doc/age
/usr/share/doc/age/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/age
/usr/share/licenses/age/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install age on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.