How To Install liboath on Fedora 34

liboath is Library for OATH handling Library for OATH handling

Introduction

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

What is `liboath`

OATH stands for Open AuTHentication, which is the organization that specify the algorithms. Supported technologies include the event-based HOTP algorithm (RFC4226) and the time-based TOTP algorithm (RFC6238). liboath 2.6.6 2.fc34 x86_64 50 k oath-toolkit-2.6.6-2.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library for OATH handling https LGPLv2+ OATH stands for Open AuTHentication, which is the organization that specify the algorithms. Supported technologies include the event-based HOTP algorithm (RFC4226) and the time-based TOTP algorithm (RFC6238).

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

Install liboath 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 liboath using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install liboath

Install liboath 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 liboath using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install liboath

How To Uninstall liboath on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove liboath

liboath Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/liboath
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/39cef4e5cf2f9e0baa310f64291acf473de539
/usr/lib/liboath.so.0
/usr/lib/liboath.so.0.1.3
/usr/share/doc/liboath
/usr/share/doc/liboath/COPYING
/etc/liboath
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/80aa98ffb1d67465ebb57bb6e78e07a33bc324
/usr/lib64/liboath.so.0
/usr/lib64/liboath.so.0.1.3
/usr/share/doc/liboath
/usr/share/doc/liboath/COPYING

References

[liboath website](https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/ https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/)

Summary

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