How To Install botan on Fedora 34

botan is Crypto library written in C++ Crypto library written in C++

Introduction

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

What is `botan`

Botan is a BSD-licensed crypto library written in C++. It provides a wide variety of basic cryptographic algorithms, X.509 certificates and CRLs, PKCS #10 certificate requests, a filter/pipe message processing system, and a wide variety of other features, all written in portable C++. The API reference, tutorial, and examples may help impart the flavor of the library. botan 1.10.17 24.fc34 x86_64 826 k botan-1.10.17-24.fc34.src.rpm fedora Crypto library written in C++ http BSD Botan is a BSD-licensed crypto library written in C++. It provides a wide variety of basic cryptographic algorithms, X.509 certificates and CRLs, PKCS #10 certificate requests, a filter/pipe message processing system, and a wide variety of other features, all written in portable C++. The API reference, tutorial, and examples may help impart the flavor of the library.

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

Install botan 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 botan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install botan

Install botan 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 botan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install botan

How To Uninstall botan on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove botan

botan Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/6ac58135fd5e568d88870cd87a9433a71d02dd
/usr/lib/libbotan-1.10.so.1
/usr/lib/libbotan-1.10.so.1.17
/usr/share/doc/botan
/usr/share/doc/botan/README.fedora
/usr/share/doc/botan/readme.txt
/usr/share/licenses/botan
/usr/share/licenses/botan/license.txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8/7e38cc046373b1b4aab5d81fa0e54d1d51b83d
/usr/lib64/libbotan-1.10.so.1
/usr/lib64/libbotan-1.10.so.1.17
/usr/share/doc/botan
/usr/share/doc/botan/README.fedora
/usr/share/doc/botan/readme.txt
/usr/share/licenses/botan
/usr/share/licenses/botan/license.txt

References

[botan website](http://botan.randombit.net/ http://botan.randombit.net/)

Summary

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