How To Install gostsum on Fedora 34

gostsum is GOST file digesting utilities

Introduction

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

What is gostsum

GOST file digesting utilities.

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

Install gostsum 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 gostsum using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gostsum

Install gostsum 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 gostsum using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gostsum

How To Uninstall gostsum on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove gostsum

gostsum Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gost12sum
/usr/bin/gostsum
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/ae00899f8d803246ff031f9646167b8468c58a
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/9e827ed58b30fcfb0f7f8ccd4ebd42716372b2
/usr/share/man/man1/gost12sum.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gostsum.1.gz

References

Summary

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