How To Install oathtool on Fedora 34

oathtool is A command line tool for generating and validating OTPs

Introduction

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

What is oathtool

A command line tool for generating and validating OTPs.

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

Install oathtool 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 oathtool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install oathtool

Install oathtool 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 oathtool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install oathtool

How To Uninstall oathtool on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove oathtool

oathtool Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/oathtool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/7d9cc370955f40fd9ec592c7f1e80e6cb86c50
/usr/share/doc/oathtool
/usr/share/doc/oathtool/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/oathtool.1.gz

References

Summary

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