How To Install age on Fedora 34
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.