How To Install pwsafe on Fedora 34

pwsafe is A unix commandline program that manages encrypted password databases

Introduction

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

What is pwsafe

pwsafe is a unix commandline program that manages encrypted password databases. Compatible with CounterPane’s PasswordSafe Win32 program versions 2.x and 1.x.

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

Install pwsafe 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 pwsafe using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pwsafe

Install pwsafe 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 pwsafe using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pwsafe

How To Uninstall pwsafe on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove pwsafe

pwsafe Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/pwsafe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/777aa016fbd06232215e58746e779097f5aa8b
/usr/share/doc/pwsafe
/usr/share/doc/pwsafe/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pwsafe/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pwsafe/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pwsafe/README
/usr/share/doc/pwsafe/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/pwsafe.1.gz

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Summary

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