How To Install sedutil on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sedutil on Fedora 34.
What is sedutil
The Drive Trust Alliance software (sedutil) is an Open Source (GPLv3) effort to make Self Encrypting Drive technology freely available to everyone. It is a combination of the two known available Open Source code bases today sedutil is a Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) management program and Pre-Boot Authorization (PBA) image that will allow the activation and use of self encrypting drives that comply with the Trusted Computing Group Opal 2.0 SSC. This package provides the sedutil-cli and linuxpba binaries, but not the PBA image itself.
We can use yum or dnf to install sedutil on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sedutil.
Install sedutil 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 sedutil using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sedutil
Install sedutil 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 sedutil using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sedutil
How To Uninstall sedutil on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the sedutil package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sedutil
sedutil Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/4d96f06382e33b96123497b772896d76fc5419
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/7ceca6df5de9ba2adb80311682d02319fd9ea1
/usr/libexec/linuxpba
/usr/sbin/sedutil-cli
/usr/share/doc/sedutil
/usr/share/doc/sedutil/Copyright.txt
/usr/share/doc/sedutil/PSIDRevert_LINUX.txt
/usr/share/doc/sedutil/README.md
/usr/share/doc/sedutil/ReadMe.txt
/usr/share/licenses/sedutil
/usr/share/licenses/sedutil/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man8/sedutil-cli.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sedutil on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.