How To Install certbot on Fedora 34

certbot is A free, automated certificate authority client

Introduction

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

What is certbot

certbot is a free, automated certificate authority that aims to lower the barriers to entry for encrypting all HTTP traffic on the internet.

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

Install certbot 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 certbot using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install certbot

Install certbot 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 certbot using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install certbot

How To Uninstall certbot on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove certbot

certbot Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/letsencrypt
/etc/sysconfig/certbot
/usr/bin/certbot
/usr/bin/letsencrypt
/usr/lib/systemd/system/certbot-renew.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/certbot-renew.timer
/usr/share/doc/certbot
/usr/share/doc/certbot/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/certbot/README.fedora
/usr/share/doc/certbot/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/certbot
/usr/share/licenses/certbot/LICENSE.txt
/var/lib/letsencrypt
/etc/letsencrypt
/etc/sysconfig/certbot
/usr/bin/certbot
/usr/bin/letsencrypt
/usr/lib/systemd/system/certbot-renew.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/certbot-renew.timer
/usr/share/doc/certbot
/usr/share/doc/certbot/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/certbot/README.fedora
/usr/share/doc/certbot/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/certbot
/usr/share/licenses/certbot/LICENSE.txt
/var/lib/letsencrypt
/var/log

References

Summary

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