How To Install swtpm on Fedora 34

swtpm is TPM Emulator

Introduction

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

What is swtpm

TPM emulator built on libtpms providing TPM functionality for QEMU VMs

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

Install swtpm 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 swtpm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install swtpm

Install swtpm 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 swtpm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install swtpm

How To Uninstall swtpm on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove swtpm

swtpm Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/swtpm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/140840d011f8ef17ddc76b9633d73ce8b19359
/usr/share/doc/swtpm
/usr/share/doc/swtpm/README
/usr/share/licenses/swtpm
/usr/share/licenses/swtpm/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/swtpm.8.gz
/usr/share/selinux/packages/swtpm.pp
/usr/share/selinux/packages/swtpm_svirt.pp
/usr/bin/swtpm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/63ed1716dcb8724a7e391ff52e64619f4ee242
/usr/share/doc/swtpm
/usr/share/doc/swtpm/README
/usr/share/licenses/swtpm
/usr/share/licenses/swtpm/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/swtpm.8.gz
/usr/share/selinux/packages/swtpm.pp
/usr/share/selinux/packages/swtpm_svirt.pp

References

Summary

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