How To Install paperkey on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install paperkey on Fedora 34.
What is paperkey
A reasonable way to achieve a long term backup of OpenPGP (PGP, GnuPG, etc) keys is to print them out on paper. Paper and ink have amazingly long retention qualities - far longer than the magnetic or optical means that are generally used to back up computer data. A paper backup isn’t a replacement for the usual machine readable (tape, CD-R, DVD-R, etc) backups, but rather as an if-all-else-fails method of restoring a key.
We can use yum or dnf to install paperkey on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install paperkey.
Install paperkey 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 paperkey using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install paperkey
Install paperkey 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 paperkey using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install paperkey
How To Uninstall paperkey on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the paperkey package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove paperkey
paperkey Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/paperkey
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/24
/usr/lib/.build-id/24/8b68a21b0410bf9dd67149e4d0d878e1a28547
/usr/share/doc/paperkey
/usr/share/doc/paperkey/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/paperkey/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/paperkey/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/paperkey/README
/usr/share/licenses/paperkey
/usr/share/licenses/paperkey/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/paperkey.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install paperkey on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
