How To Install trousers on Fedora 34

trousers is TCG’s Software Stack v1.2

Introduction

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

What is `trousers`

TrouSerS is an implementation of the Trusted Computing Group’s Software Stack (TSS) specification. You can use TrouSerS to write applications that make use of your TPM hardware. TPM hardware can create, store and use RSA keys securely (without ever being exposed in memory), verify a platform’s software state using cryptographic hashes and more.

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

Install trousers 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 trousers using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install trousers

Install trousers 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 trousers using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install trousers

How To Uninstall trousers on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove trousers

trousers Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/tcsd.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/74925258bf8a735e3547ca2584c5a302211499
/usr/lib/systemd/system/tcsd.service
/usr/sbin/tcsd
/usr/share/doc/trousers
/usr/share/doc/trousers/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/trousers/README
/usr/share/man/man5/tcsd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tcsd.8.gz
/var/lib/tpm

References

trousers website

Summary

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