How To Install pakchois on Fedora 34

pakchois is A wrapper library for PKCS#11 A wrapper library for PKCS#11

Introduction

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

What is `pakchois`

pakchois is just another PKCS#11 wrapper library. pakchois aims to provide a thin wrapper over the PKCS#11 interface; offering a modern object-oriented C interface which does not hide any of the underlying interface, and avoids dependencies on any cryptography toolkit. pakchois 0.4 23.fc34 x86_64 18 k pakchois-0.4-23.fc34.src.rpm fedora A wrapper library for PKCS#11 http LGPLv2+ pakchois is just another PKCS#11 wrapper library. pakchois aims to provide a thin wrapper over the PKCS#11 interface; offering a modern object-oriented C interface which does not hide any of the underlying interface, and avoids dependencies on any cryptography toolkit.

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

Install pakchois 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 pakchois using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pakchois

Install pakchois 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 pakchois using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pakchois

How To Uninstall pakchois on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove pakchois

pakchois Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/730327513de72a279b29ca4ec7e36a91ff8206
/usr/lib64/libpakchois.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpakchois.so.0.1.0
/usr/share/doc/pakchois
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/3cde65f096365af5a8c9f35e805217acc4f272
/usr/lib/libpakchois.so.0
/usr/lib/libpakchois.so.0.1.0
/usr/share/doc/pakchois
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/README

References

[pakchois website](http://www.manyfish.co.uk/pakchois/ http://www.manyfish.co.uk/pakchois/)

Summary

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