How To Install clevis on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis on Fedora 34.
What is clevis
Clevis is a framework for automated decryption. It allows you to encrypt data using sophisticated unlocking policies which enable decryption to occur automatically. The clevis package provides basic encryption/decryption policy support. Users can use this directly; but most commonly, it will be used as a building block for other packages. For example, see the clevis-luks and clevis-dracut packages for automatic root volume unlocking of LUKSv1 volumes during early boot.
We can use yum or dnf to install clevis on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clevis.
Install clevis 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 clevis using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install clevis
Install clevis 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 clevis using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install clevis
How To Uninstall clevis on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the clevis package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove clevis
clevis Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/clevis
/usr/bin/clevis-decrypt
/usr/bin/clevis-decrypt-sss
/usr/bin/clevis-decrypt-tang
/usr/bin/clevis-decrypt-tpm2
/usr/bin/clevis-encrypt-sss
/usr/bin/clevis-encrypt-tang
/usr/bin/clevis-encrypt-tpm2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/2d413885518559f7f7bf86115507553c6d800a
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/b6feb635306fb54c46917ea1e14e1edbe2488e
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/clevis.conf
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/clevis
/usr/share/licenses/clevis
/usr/share/licenses/clevis/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/clevis-decrypt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clevis-encrypt-sss.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clevis-encrypt-tang.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clevis-encrypt-tpm2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clevis.1.gz
/usr/bin/clevis
/usr/bin/clevis-decrypt
/usr/bin/clevis-decrypt-sss
/usr/bin/clevis-decrypt-tang
/usr/bin/clevis-decrypt-tpm2
/usr/bin/clevis-encrypt-sss
/usr/bin/clevis-encrypt-tang
/usr/bin/clevis-encrypt-tpm2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf/ddb2d14a5101db695940f82e6bc4e87eace735
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/a979e9daa7cf6fc319e9f59109db55571eb958
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/clevis.conf
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/clevis
/usr/share/licenses/clevis
/usr/share/licenses/clevis/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/clevis-decrypt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clevis-encrypt-sss.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clevis-encrypt-tang.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clevis-encrypt-tpm2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clevis.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.