How To Install sqlcipher on Fedora 34

sqlcipher is SQLCipher is an open source extension to SQLite that provides transparent 256-bit AES encryption of database files. SQLCipher is an open source extension to SQLite that provides transparent 256-bit AES encryption of database files.

Introduction

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

What is `sqlcipher`

SQLCipher is an open source library that provides transparent, secure 256-bit AES encryption of SQLite database files. SQLCipher has been adopted as a secure database solution by many commercial and open source products, making it one of the most popular encrypted database platforms for Mobile, Embedded, and Desktop applications sqlcipher 3.4.1 9.fc34 x86_64 428 k sqlcipher-3.4.1-9.fc34.src.rpm fedora SQLCipher is an open source extension to SQLite that provides transparent 256-bit AES encryption of database files. https BSD SQLCipher is an open source library that provides transparent, secure 256-bit AES encryption of SQLite database files. SQLCipher has been adopted as a secure database solution by many commercial and open source products, making it one of the most popular encrypted database platforms for Mobile, Embedded, and Desktop applications

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

Install sqlcipher 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 sqlcipher using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sqlcipher

Install sqlcipher 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 sqlcipher using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sqlcipher

How To Uninstall sqlcipher on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove sqlcipher

sqlcipher Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/sqlcipher
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/fa43e5891c04e86ac89eb287b38d3f7f74d5bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/c98431bd3e338df93323fee9508b5873f97104
/usr/lib/libsqlcipher-3.15.2.so.0
/usr/lib/libsqlcipher-3.15.2.so.0.8.6
/usr/share/doc/sqlcipher
/usr/share/doc/sqlcipher/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/sqlcipher
/usr/share/licenses/sqlcipher/LICENSE
/usr/bin/sqlcipher
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/eb2e52221fba470718f0114353291d04b924d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/d414852a6fa6450e1fa4c785cfa2a741237ca3
/usr/lib64/libsqlcipher-3.15.2.so.0
/usr/lib64/libsqlcipher-3.15.2.so.0.8.6
/usr/share/doc/sqlcipher
/usr/share/doc/sqlcipher/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/sqlcipher
/usr/share/licenses/sqlcipher/LICENSE

References

[sqlcipher website](https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher)

Summary

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