How To Install apg on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apg on Fedora 34.
What is apg
APG (Automated Password Generator) is the tool set for random password generation. This standalone version generates some random words of required type and prints them to standard output.
We can use yum or dnf to install apg on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install apg.
Install apg 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 apg using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install apg
Install apg 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 apg using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install apg
How To Uninstall apg on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the apg package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove apg
apg Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/apg
/usr/bin/apgbfm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/e7b8e9e7f23de47ae18cf72d38b399af4ca94f
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9/4c2dad9fa712d6cabbb4e1ab45f726bb39ccba
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/d062e992a268808b8381338a433601c3586921
/usr/lib/systemd/system/apg.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/sbin/apgd
/usr/share/doc/apg
/usr/share/doc/apg/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/apg/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/apg/README
/usr/share/doc/apg/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/apg/TODO
/usr/share/doc/apg/rfc0972.txt
/usr/share/doc/apg/rfc1750.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/apg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/apgbfm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/apgd.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apg on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.