How To Install ecdsautils on Fedora 34

ecdsautils is Tiny collection of programs used for ECDSA (keygen, sign, verify)

Introduction

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

What is ecdsautils

This collection of ECDSA utilities can be used to sign and verify data in a simple manner.

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

Install ecdsautils 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 ecdsautils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ecdsautils

Install ecdsautils 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 ecdsautils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ecdsautils

How To Uninstall ecdsautils on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ecdsautils

ecdsautils Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ecdsakeygen
/usr/bin/ecdsasign
/usr/bin/ecdsaverify
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/54
/usr/lib/.build-id/54/f483d937d2b7c214f9d16e98e3084627cdbc67
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/55e0729ebf51e0b620232bea76426b0ce97d84
/usr/lib/.build-id/83
/usr/lib/.build-id/83/915a24eed9391f52c6ce9d9a688db771f5339e
/usr/share/doc/ecdsautils
/usr/share/doc/ecdsautils/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ecdsautils
/usr/share/licenses/ecdsautils/COPYRIGHT

References

Summary

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