How To Install bouncycastle on Fedora 34
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.
