How To Install pinentry on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pinentry on Fedora 34.
What is pinentry
Pinentry is a collection of simple PIN or passphrase entry dialogs which utilize the Assuan protocol as described by the aegypten project; see http This package contains the curses (text) based version of the PIN entry dialog.
We can use yum or dnf to install pinentry on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pinentry.
Install pinentry 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 pinentry using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pinentry
Install pinentry 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 pinentry using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pinentry
How To Uninstall pinentry on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the pinentry package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pinentry
pinentry Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/pinentry
/usr/bin/pinentry-curses
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/42c356e8bd7c5c6be40835e1d68a9013fb7d12
/usr/share/doc/pinentry
/usr/share/doc/pinentry/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pinentry/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pinentry/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pinentry/README
/usr/share/doc/pinentry/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/pinentry/TODO
/usr/share/info/pinentry.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/pinentry
/usr/share/licenses/pinentry/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pinentry on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.