How To Install libgringotts on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgringotts
on Fedora 34.
What is libgringotts
libGringotts is a small, easy-to-use, thread-safe C library originally developed for Gringotts; its purpose is to encapsulate data (generic in an encrypted and compressed structure, to be written in a file or used elseway. It makes use of strong encryption algorithms, to ensure the data are as safe as possible, and allow the user to have the complete control over all the algorithms used in the process. libgringotts 1.2.1 29.fc34 x86_64 31 k libgringotts-1.2.1-29.fc34.src.rpm fedora A backend for managing encrypted data files on the disk http GPLv2+ libGringotts is a small, easy-to-use, thread-safe C library originally developed for Gringotts; its purpose is to encapsulate data (generic in an encrypted and compressed structure, to be written in a file or used elseway. It makes use of strong encryption algorithms, to ensure the data are as safe as possible, and allow the user to have the complete control over all the algorithms used in the process.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libgringotts
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libgringotts.
Install libgringotts 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 libgringotts
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libgringotts
Install libgringotts 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 libgringotts
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libgringotts
How To Uninstall libgringotts on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the libgringotts
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libgringotts
libgringotts Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/e22ae722c50ba5151557d69eeb9723c13a1585
/usr/lib/libgringotts.so.2
/usr/lib/libgringotts.so.2.0.7
/usr/share/doc/libgringotts
/usr/share/doc/libgringotts/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libgringotts/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libgringotts/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libgringotts/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libgringotts/README
/usr/share/doc/libgringotts/TODO
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce/2383850d481b223fe50bba34eff51a78bef765
/usr/lib64/libgringotts.so.2
/usr/lib64/libgringotts.so.2.0.7
/usr/share/doc/libgringotts
/usr/share/doc/libgringotts/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libgringotts/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libgringotts/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libgringotts/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libgringotts/README
/usr/share/doc/libgringotts/TODO
References
- [libgringotts website](http://gringotts.shlomifish.org/ http://gringotts.shlomifish.org/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgringotts
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.