How To Install ciphertest on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ciphertest on Fedora 34.
What is ciphertest
cipherTest.sh is an SSL cipher checker in that it uses gnutls, which has support for many more configurations than openssl. It tests potentially ~3,200 different configurations but does some pre-optimization so that it minimizes “failed” checks.
We can use yum or dnf to install ciphertest on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ciphertest.
Install ciphertest 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 ciphertest using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ciphertest
Install ciphertest 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 ciphertest using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ciphertest
How To Uninstall ciphertest on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ciphertest package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ciphertest
ciphertest Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/ciphertest
/usr/share/doc/ciphertest
/usr/share/doc/ciphertest/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/ciphertest/README
/usr/share/licenses/ciphertest
/usr/share/licenses/ciphertest/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ciphertest on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.