How To Install gsignond on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gsignond on Fedora 34.
What is gsignond
The GSignOn daemon is a D-Bus service which performs user authentication on behalf of its clients. There are currently authentication plugins for OAuth 1.0 and 2.0, SASL, Digest-MD5, and plain username/password combination.
We can use yum or dnf to install gsignond on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gsignond.
Install gsignond 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 gsignond using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gsignond
Install gsignond 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 gsignond using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gsignond
How To Uninstall gsignond on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the gsignond package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gsignond
gsignond Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/gsignond
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/ca507b7b76be213d7bc07f7847cf830be31eda
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.google.code.AccountsSSO.SingleSignOn.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.google.code.AccountsSSO.gSingleSignOn.service
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gsignond on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.