How To Install creds on Fedora 34

creds is Simple encrypted credential management with GPG

Introduction

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

What is creds

Simple encrypted credential management with GPG.

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

Install creds 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 creds using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install creds

Install creds 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 creds using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install creds

How To Uninstall creds on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove creds

creds Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/creds
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/creds
/usr/share/doc/creds
/usr/share/doc/creds/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/creds/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/creds
/usr/share/licenses/creds/LICENSE
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_creds

References

Summary

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