How To Install qatengine on Fedora 34

qatengine is Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) OpenSSL Engine

Introduction

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

What is qatengine

This package provides the Intel QuickAssist Technology OpenSSL Engine (an OpenSSL Plug-In Engine) which provides cryptographic acceleration for both hardware and optimized software using Intel QuickAssist Technology enabled Intel platforms.

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

Install qatengine 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 qatengine using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qatengine

Install qatengine 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 qatengine using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qatengine

How To Uninstall qatengine on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove qatengine

qatengine Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/ee1645a0cdfa1b6891424bad3be82c67f62fc9
/usr/lib64/engines-1.1/qatengine.so
/usr/share/doc/qatengine
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/qatengine
/usr/share/licenses/qatengine/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/qatengine/LICENSE.OPENSSL
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/1eb860f22da57b6533e775af0390c2701ecf88
/usr/lib64/engines-1.1/qatengine.so
/usr/share/doc/qatengine
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/README.md
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs/additional_information.md
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs/async_job.md
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs/config_options.md
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs/engine_specific_messages.md
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs/features.md
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs/hardware_requirements.md
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs/images
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs/images/async.png
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs/images/qat_engine.png
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs/legal.md
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs/licensing.md
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs/limitations.md
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs/openssl_config.md
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs/qat_hw.md
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs/qat_sw.md
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs/software_requirements.md
/usr/share/doc/qatengine/docs/troubleshooting.md
/usr/share/licenses/qatengine
/usr/share/licenses/qatengine/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/qatengine/LICENSE.OPENSSL

References

Summary

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