How To Install keychain on Fedora 34

keychain is Agent manager for OpenSSH, ssh.com, Sun SSH, and GnuPG

Introduction

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

What is `keychain`

Keychain is a manager for OpenSSH, ssh.com, Sun SSH and GnuPG agents. It acts as a front-end to the agents, allowing you to easily have one long-running agent process per system, rather than per login session. This dramatically reduces the number of times you need to enter your passphrase from once per new login session to once every time your local machine is rebooted.

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

Install keychain 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 keychain using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install keychain

Install keychain 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 keychain using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install keychain

How To Uninstall keychain on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove keychain

keychain Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/profile.d/keychain.csh
/etc/profile.d/keychain.sh
/usr/bin/keychain
/usr/share/doc/keychain
/usr/share/doc/keychain/COPYING.txt
/usr/share/doc/keychain/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/keychain/README.Fedora
/usr/share/doc/keychain/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/keychain.1.gz

References

keychain website

Summary

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