How To Install stunnel on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stunnel on Fedora 34.
What is stunnel
Stunnel is a socket wrapper which can provide TLS/SSL (Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer) support to ordinary applications. For example, it can be used in conjunction with imapd to create a TLS secure IMAP server.
We can use yum or dnf to install stunnel on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stunnel.
Install stunnel 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 stunnel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install stunnel
Install stunnel 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 stunnel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install stunnel
How To Uninstall stunnel on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the stunnel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove stunnel
stunnel Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/stunnel
/usr/bin/stunnel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/c008c3f100cee723d63d83bb285f670cafd3a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/73c54c57726a73e84575f3e5b766ef117211de
/usr/lib/systemd/system/stunnel.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib64/stunnel
/usr/lib64/stunnel/libstunnel.so
/usr/share/doc/stunnel/Certificate-Creation
/usr/share/doc/stunnel/VNC_StunnelHOWTO.html
/usr/share/doc/stunnel/faq.stunnel-2.html
/usr/share/doc/stunnel/pop3-redirect.xinetd
/usr/share/doc/stunnel/sfinger.xinetd
/usr/share/doc/stunnel/stunnel-pop3s-client.conf
/usr/share/doc/stunnel/stunnel-sfinger.conf
/usr/share/doc/stunnel/stunnel.conf-sample
/usr/share/doc/stunnel/tworzenie_certyfikatow.html
/usr/share/licenses/stunnel
/usr/share/licenses/stunnel/COPYING.md
/usr/share/licenses/stunnel/COPYRIGHT.md
/usr/share/man/man8/stunnel.8.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man8/stunnel.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stunnel on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.