How To Install sedutil on Fedora 34

sedutil is Tools to manage the activation and use of self encrypting drives

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.