How To Install cardpeek on Fedora 34

cardpeek is Tool to read the contents of smart cards

Introduction

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

What is cardpeek

Cardpeek is a tool to read the contents of ISO7816 smart cards. It features a GTK GUI to represent card data is a tree view, and is extendable with a scripting language (LUA). The tool currently reads the contents of * EMV cards * Calypso public transport cards (such as Navigo) * Moneo ePurse cards * Vitale 2 French health cards.

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

Install cardpeek 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 cardpeek using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cardpeek

Install cardpeek 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 cardpeek using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cardpeek

How To Uninstall cardpeek on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove cardpeek

cardpeek Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/cardpeek
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/ab6fde2ba45399bc41354eaf4ecfb33f3c3fcd
/usr/share/appdata/cardpeek.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/cardpeek.desktop
/usr/share/doc/cardpeek
/usr/share/doc/cardpeek/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cardpeek/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/cardpeek/README
/usr/share/doc/cardpeek/cardpeek_ref.en.pdf
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/cardpeek-logo.png
/usr/share/licenses/cardpeek
/usr/share/licenses/cardpeek/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/cardpeek.1.gz

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Summary

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