How To Install cryptobone on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cryptobone on Fedora 34.
What is cryptobone
The Crypto Bone is a secure messaging system that makes sure a user’s email is always encrypted without burdening the user with the message key management. Based on a GUI and a separate daemon, both ease-of-use and security are assured by a novel approach to encryption key management. While the message keys are secured by a daemon running on the Linux machine, additional protection can be achieved by using an external device for storing encryption keys. This external device can be another Linux computer dedicated to this task or a Beagle Bone or a Raspberry Pi. (https
We can use yum or dnf to install cryptobone on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cryptobone.
Install cryptobone 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 cryptobone using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cryptobone
Install cryptobone 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 cryptobone using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cryptobone
How To Uninstall cryptobone on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the cryptobone package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cryptobone
cryptobone Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/activate-cryptobone
/usr/bin/cryptobone
/usr/bin/external-cryptobone
/usr/bin/external-cryptobone-admin
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/3353b3f58f6f503f49de5bfa28467fea087335
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/e51df44651274878f97e5696f4e1bda39051da
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/10b9e3ff083c40a8ccbad392ab62194590018b
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3/083c9b684913fc716671d553dc703527b5a09f
/usr/lib/cryptobone
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ALLINONE
/usr/lib/cryptobone/COPYING
/usr/lib/cryptobone/COPYING-cryptlib
/usr/lib/cryptobone/GUI
/usr/lib/cryptobone/GUI/cryptobone.desktop
/usr/lib/cryptobone/GUI/cryptobone.png
/usr/lib/cryptobone/GUI/external-cryptobone-admin.desktop
/usr/lib/cryptobone/GUI/external-cryptobone-admin.png
/usr/lib/cryptobone/README
/usr/lib/cryptobone/README-cryptlib
/usr/lib/cryptobone/bin
/usr/lib/cryptobone/bin/analysebatchfile
/usr/lib/cryptobone/bin/cbb-poweroff
/usr/lib/cryptobone/bin/createfetchmailrc
/usr/lib/cryptobone/bin/processmessage
/usr/lib/cryptobone/bin/restoremessages
/usr/lib/cryptobone/bin/savemessages
/usr/lib/cryptobone/bin/sendmessage
/usr/lib/cryptobone/cbcontrol
/usr/lib/cryptobone/cbcontrol.functions
/usr/lib/cryptobone/check
/usr/lib/cryptobone/createmasterkey
/usr/lib/cryptobone/cron.fetchmail
/usr/lib/cryptobone/cryptobone
/usr/lib/cryptobone/cryptoboned
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/bin
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/bin/analysebatchfile
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/bin/cbb-poweroff
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/bin/createfetchmailrc
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/bin/processmessage
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/bin/restoremessages
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/bin/savemessages
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/bin/sendmessage
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/cbcontrol
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/cbcontrol.functions
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/cron.fetchmail
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/cryptoboneexternd
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/cryptoboneshell
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/echotest
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/externalcryptobone
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/firewall
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/init.d
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/init.d/cryptoboneexternd
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/init.d/sshd_config-external
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/initialkeysetup
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/rc.local
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/reset
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/src
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/src/cryptlib.h
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/src/cryptoboneexternd.c
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/src/makefile
/usr/lib/cryptobone/fingerprints
/usr/lib/cryptobone/getIP
/usr/lib/cryptobone/getlocalsecret
/usr/lib/cryptobone/init.d
/usr/lib/cryptobone/init.d/cryptoboned
/usr/lib/cryptobone/initdatabase
/usr/lib/cryptobone/keys
/usr/lib/cryptobone/libclr.so.3.4
/usr/lib/cryptobone/libclr.so.3.4.5
/usr/lib/cryptobone/rc.local
/usr/lib/cryptobone/selinux
/usr/lib/cryptobone/selinux/cryptobone.mod
/usr/lib/cryptobone/selinux/cryptobone.pp
/usr/lib/cryptobone/selinux/cryptobone.te
/usr/lib/cryptobone/selinux/cryptobone.te.1.0.2
/usr/lib/cryptobone/selinux/updatepp
/usr/lib/cryptobone/src
/usr/lib/cryptobone/src/cryptlib.h
/usr/lib/cryptobone/src/cryptoboned.c
/usr/lib/cryptobone/src/initdatabase.c
/usr/lib/cryptobone/src/makefile
/usr/lib/cryptobone/version
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cryptobone-dbinit.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cryptobone-fetchmail.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cryptobone-fetchmail.timer
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cryptoboned.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cryptoboneexternd.service
/usr/share/applications/cryptobone.desktop
/usr/share/applications/external-cryptobone-admin.desktop
/usr/share/doc/cryptobone/README
/usr/share/doc/cryptobone/README-cryptlib
/usr/share/icons/default/cryptobone.png
/usr/share/icons/default/external-cryptobone-admin.png
/usr/share/licenses/cryptobone/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/cryptobone/COPYING-cryptlib
/usr/share/man/man8/activate-cryptobone.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cbcontrol.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cryptobone.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cryptoboned.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/external-cryptobone-admin.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/external-cryptobone.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cryptobone on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.