How To Install botan2 on Fedora 34

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install botan2 on Fedora 34.

What is botan2

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. This is the current stable release branch 2.x of Botan. botan2 2.17.3 3.fc34 x86_64 2.0 M botan2-2.17.3-3.fc34.src.rpm fedora Crypto and TLS for C++11 https 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. This is the current stable release branch 2.x of Botan.

We can use yum or dnf to install botan2 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install botan2.

Install botan2 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 botan2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install botan2

Install botan2 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 botan2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install botan2

How To Uninstall botan2 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the botan2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove botan2

botan2 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/botan
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/77782e6475bf4e829939c299826cebbed27338
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/895e6a12265cbe8c22a48b261db5ed952ea738
/usr/lib/libbotan-2.so.17
/usr/lib/libbotan-2.so.17.17.3
/usr/share/doc/botan2
/usr/share/doc/botan2/authors.txt
/usr/share/doc/botan2/license.txt
/usr/share/doc/botan2/news.txt
/usr/share/doc/botan2/pgpkey.txt
/usr/share/licenses/botan2
/usr/share/licenses/botan2/license.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/botan.1.gz
/usr/bin/botan
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/8a872fd7d598128e2dad99fbf7c2052ddab999
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/06490ffd228c58db1d1fcc5d32115c54190ee3
/usr/lib64/libbotan-2.so.17
/usr/lib64/libbotan-2.so.17.17.3
/usr/share/doc/botan2
/usr/share/doc/botan2/authors.txt
/usr/share/doc/botan2/license.txt
/usr/share/doc/botan2/news.txt
/usr/share/doc/botan2/pgpkey.txt
/usr/share/licenses/botan2
/usr/share/licenses/botan2/license.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/botan.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install botan2 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.