How To Install parsec on Fedora 34

parsec is The PARSEC daemon

Introduction

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

What is parsec

PARSEC is the Platform AbstRaction for SECurity, an open-source initiative to provide a common API to hardware security and cryptographic services in a platform-agnostic way. This abstraction layer keeps workloads decoupled from physical platform details, enabling cloud-native delivery flows within the data center and at the edge.

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

Install parsec 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 parsec using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install parsec

Install parsec 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 parsec using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install parsec

How To Uninstall parsec on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove parsec

parsec Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/parsec
/etc/parsec/config.toml
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/fe8dec7c46bc69230ee23579e74a321075e6b9
/usr/lib/systemd/system/parsec.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/parsec.conf
/usr/libexec/parsec
/usr/share/doc/parsec
/usr/share/doc/parsec/README.md
/usr/share/doc/parsec/config.toml
/usr/share/licenses/parsec
/usr/share/licenses/parsec/LICENSE
/var/lib/parsec

References

Summary

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