How To Install pwgen on Fedora 34

pwgen is Automatic password generation

Introduction

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

What is `pwgen`

pwgen generates random, meaningless but pronounceable passwords. These passwords contain either only lowercase letters, or upper and lower case, or upper case, lower case and numeric digits. Upper case letters and numeric digits are placed in a way that eases memorizing the password.

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

Install pwgen 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 pwgen using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pwgen

Install pwgen 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 pwgen using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pwgen

How To Uninstall pwgen on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove pwgen

pwgen Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/pwgen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/46e9256752881557fe7880a41db8a311d63649
/usr/share/doc/pwgen
/usr/share/doc/pwgen/changelog
/usr/share/licenses/pwgen
/usr/share/licenses/pwgen/copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/pwgen.1.gz

References

pwgen website

Summary

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