How To Install certwatch on Fedora 34

certwatch is SSL/TLS certificate expiry warning generator

Introduction

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

What is certwatch

This package provides a utility for generating warnings when SSL/TLS certificates are soon to expire.

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

Install certwatch 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 certwatch using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install certwatch

Install certwatch 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 certwatch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install certwatch

How To Uninstall certwatch on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove certwatch

certwatch Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/certwatch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/d0ed5cdcfcfbdf221aeef8f258681ee906b740
/usr/share/licenses/certwatch
/usr/share/licenses/certwatch/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/certwatch.1.gz

References

Summary

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