How To Install x509watch on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install x509watch
on Fedora 34.
What is x509watch
x509watch is a simple command line application, written in Perl, that can be used to list soon expiring or already expired X.509 certificates, such as e.g. SSL certificates. All certificates are searched by default in the standard PKI directory, but any other directory can be specified as parameter. Only Base64 encoded DER and PEM X.509 certificates are supported.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install x509watch
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install x509watch.
Install x509watch 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 x509watch
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install x509watch
Install x509watch 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 x509watch
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install x509watch
How To Uninstall x509watch on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the x509watch
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove x509watch
x509watch Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/sysconfig/x509watch
/usr/bin/x509watch
/usr/lib/systemd/system/x509watch.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/x509watch.timer
/usr/libexec/x509watch
/usr/share/doc/x509watch
/usr/share/doc/x509watch/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/x509watch/README
/usr/share/licenses/x509watch
/usr/share/licenses/x509watch/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install x509watch
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.