How To Install ssss on Fedora 34

ssss is Shamir’s secret sharing scheme

Introduction

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

What is ssss

ssss is an implementation of Shamir’s secret sharing scheme. ssss does both of a secret using user provided shares.

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

Install ssss 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 ssss using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ssss

Install ssss 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 ssss using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ssss

How To Uninstall ssss on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ssss

ssss Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ssss-combine
/usr/bin/ssss-split
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/66
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/a052c4c337bfc203437caaa77e429076cd6a3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/a052c4c337bfc203437caaa77e429076cd6a3c.1
/usr/share/doc/ssss
/usr/share/doc/ssss/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/ssss/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/ssss/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/ssss/doc.html
/usr/share/doc/ssss/ssss.manpage.xml
/usr/share/man/man1/ssss-combine.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ssss-split.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ssss.1.gz

References

Summary

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