How To Install libsodium on Fedora 34

libsodium is The Sodium crypto library The Sodium crypto library

Introduction

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

What is libsodium

Sodium is a new, easy-to-use software library for encryption, decryption, signatures, password hashing and more. It is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable fork of NaCl, with a compatible API, and an extended API to improve usability even further. Its goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build higher-level cryptographic tools. The design choices emphasize security, and “magic constants” have clear rationales. The same cannot be said of NIST curves, where the specific origins of certain constants are not described by the standards. And despite the emphasis on higher security, primitives are faster across-the-board than most implementations of the NIST standards. libsodium 1.0.18 7.fc34 x86_64 165 k libsodium-1.0.18-7.fc34.src.rpm fedora The Sodium crypto library http ISC Sodium is a new, easy-to-use software library for encryption, decryption, signatures, password hashing and more. It is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable fork of NaCl, with a compatible API, and an extended API to improve usability even further. Its goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build higher-level cryptographic tools. The design choices emphasize security, and “magic constants” have clear rationales. The same cannot be said of NIST curves, where the specific origins of certain constants are not described by the standards. And despite the emphasis on higher security, primitives are faster across-the-board than most implementations of the NIST standards.

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

Install libsodium 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 libsodium using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libsodium

Install libsodium 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 libsodium using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libsodium

How To Uninstall libsodium on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libsodium

libsodium Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/051539f14dddb63a288c2c58c1ecb02ce62aa4
/usr/lib/libsodium.so.23
/usr/lib/libsodium.so.23.3.0
/usr/share/licenses/libsodium
/usr/share/licenses/libsodium/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/ea1da9f5be6e88865a25c0395c0f6902c3efd4
/usr/lib64/libsodium.so.23
/usr/lib64/libsodium.so.23.3.0
/usr/share/licenses/libsodium
/usr/share/licenses/libsodium/LICENSE

References

Summary

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