How To Install bouncycastle on Fedora 34

bouncycastle is Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs for Java

Introduction

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

What is bouncycastle

The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms. This jar contains JCE provider and lightweight API for the Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs for JDK 1.5 to JDK 1.8.

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

Install bouncycastle 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 bouncycastle using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bouncycastle

Install bouncycastle 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 bouncycastle using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bouncycastle

How To Uninstall bouncycastle on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove bouncycastle

bouncycastle Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/java/security/security.d/2000-org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle/CONTRIBUTORS.html
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle/LICENSE.html
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle/docs
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle/docs/index.html
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle/docs/releasenotes.html
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle/docs/specifications.html
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle/index.html
/usr/share/java/bcprov.jar
/usr/share/licenses/bouncycastle
/usr/share/licenses/bouncycastle/LICENSE.html
/usr/share/maven-metadata/bouncycastle-bcprov.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/bcprov.pom

References

Summary

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