How To Install keyutils on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install keyutils on Fedora 34.
What is keyutils
Utilities to control the kernel key management facility and to provide a mechanism by which the kernel call back to user space to get a key instantiated.
We can use yum or dnf to install keyutils on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install keyutils.
Install keyutils 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 keyutils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install keyutils
Install keyutils 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 keyutils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install keyutils
How To Uninstall keyutils on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the keyutils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove keyutils
keyutils Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/request-key.conf
/etc/request-key.d
/usr/bin/keyctl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c/973656c8ea0e464db82ad6b6f482af6fa5ab13
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/3ee1562a517bc32e14c0b8fc7a6ae34fefeb61
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/a10d7ce7462c126a4397a088c23b03c3225c72
/usr/sbin/key.dns_resolver
/usr/sbin/request-key
/usr/share/doc/keyutils
/usr/share/doc/keyutils/README
/usr/share/keyutils
/usr/share/keyutils/request-key-debug.sh
/usr/share/licenses/keyutils
/usr/share/licenses/keyutils/LICENCE.GPL
/usr/share/man/man1/keyctl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/request-key.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/key.dns_resolver.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/request-key.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install keyutils on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.