How To Install libcacard on Fedora 34

libcacard is CAC (Common Access Card) library CAC (Common Access Card) library

Introduction

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

What is `libcacard`

This library provides emulation of smart cards to a virtual card reader running in a guest virtual machine. It implements DoD CAC standard with separate pki containers (compatible coolkey), using certificates read from NSS. libcacard 3 2.8.0 2.fc34 x86_64 56 k libcacard-2.8.0-2.fc34.src.rpm fedora CAC (Common Access Card) library https LGPLv2+ This library provides emulation of smart cards to a virtual card reader running in a guest virtual machine. It implements DoD CAC standard with separate pki containers (compatible coolkey), using certificates read from NSS.

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

Install libcacard 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 libcacard using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libcacard

Install libcacard 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 libcacard using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libcacard

How To Uninstall libcacard on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libcacard

libcacard Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/3bcaefad3f5c0a658ca5bf3b84d9afa366ffb4
/usr/lib64/libcacard.so.0
/usr/lib64/libcacard.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libcacard
/usr/share/doc/libcacard/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/libcacard
/usr/share/licenses/libcacard/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/a065cfe6bf6650b0113df675e1486c507d2519
/usr/lib/libcacard.so.0
/usr/lib/libcacard.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libcacard
/usr/share/doc/libcacard/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/libcacard
/usr/share/licenses/libcacard/COPYING

References

[libcacard website](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/libcacard https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/libcacard)

Summary

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