How To Install nettle on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nettle
on Fedora 34.
What is nettle
Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or less any context (C++, Python, Pike, …), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space. nettle 3.7.3 1.fc34 i686 410 k nettle-3.7.3-1.fc34.src.rpm updates A low-level cryptographic library http LGPLv3+ or GPLv2+ Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or less any context (C++, Python, Pike, …), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install nettle
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nettle.
Install nettle 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 nettle
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nettle
Install nettle 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 nettle
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nettle
How To Uninstall nettle on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the nettle
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nettle
nettle Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/febee9a749245610a9fb4730f11f9aa415fb6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/79
/usr/lib/.build-id/79/5f68b4228541dbaa56b96af1d851c63530a512
/usr/lib64/.libhogweed.so.6.4.hmac
/usr/lib64/.libhogweed.so.6.hmac
/usr/lib64/.libnettle.so.8.4.hmac
/usr/lib64/.libnettle.so.8.hmac
/usr/lib64/libhogweed.so.6
/usr/lib64/libhogweed.so.6.4
/usr/lib64/libnettle.so.8
/usr/lib64/libnettle.so.8.4
/usr/share/doc/nettle
/usr/share/doc/nettle/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nettle/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/nettle/README
/usr/share/info/nettle.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/nettle
/usr/share/licenses/nettle/COPYING.LESSERv3
/usr/share/licenses/nettle/COPYINGv2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/9f2f04bb1075d3d94893d6efbbf37edf333cf6
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b/c07b7031fa92eb4f66cc7f395cb141f476a07a
/usr/lib/.libhogweed.so.6.3.hmac
/usr/lib/.libhogweed.so.6.hmac
/usr/lib/.libnettle.so.8.3.hmac
/usr/lib/.libnettle.so.8.hmac
/usr/lib/libhogweed.so.6
/usr/lib/libhogweed.so.6.3
/usr/lib/libnettle.so.8
/usr/lib/libnettle.so.8.3
/usr/share/doc/nettle
/usr/share/doc/nettle/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nettle/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/nettle/README
/usr/share/info/nettle.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/nettle
/usr/share/licenses/nettle/COPYING.LESSERv3
/usr/share/licenses/nettle/COPYINGv2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/7d5887e788ca627db1f4f7a4e1263e6af131fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/162392a17cc3637595a4b325818bdac017d225
/usr/lib64/.libhogweed.so.6.3.hmac
/usr/lib64/.libhogweed.so.6.hmac
/usr/lib64/.libnettle.so.8.3.hmac
/usr/lib64/.libnettle.so.8.hmac
/usr/lib64/libhogweed.so.6
/usr/lib64/libhogweed.so.6.3
/usr/lib64/libnettle.so.8
/usr/lib64/libnettle.so.8.3
/usr/share/doc/nettle
/usr/share/doc/nettle/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nettle/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/nettle/README
/usr/share/info/nettle.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/nettle
/usr/share/licenses/nettle/COPYING.LESSERv3
/usr/share/licenses/nettle/COPYINGv2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/83
/usr/lib/.build-id/83/814b68591738a2f7921deec62a951907e53098
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/854548c5587bd2875b8ca4c445b477ad07ead0
/usr/lib/.libhogweed.so.6.4.hmac
/usr/lib/.libhogweed.so.6.hmac
/usr/lib/.libnettle.so.8.4.hmac
/usr/lib/.libnettle.so.8.hmac
/usr/lib/libhogweed.so.6
/usr/lib/libhogweed.so.6.4
/usr/lib/libnettle.so.8
/usr/lib/libnettle.so.8.4
/usr/share/doc/nettle
/usr/share/doc/nettle/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nettle/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/nettle/README
/usr/share/info/nettle.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/nettle
/usr/share/licenses/nettle/COPYING.LESSERv3
/usr/share/licenses/nettle/COPYINGv2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nettle
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.