How To Install xca on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xca on Fedora 34.
What is xca
X Certificate and Key management is a graphic interface for managing asymmetric keys like RSA or DSA, certificates and revocation lists. It is intended as a small CA for creation and signing certificates. It uses the OpenSSL library for the cryptographic operations. Certificate signing requests (PKCS#10), certificates (X509v3), the signing of requests, the creation of self-signed certificates, certificate revocation lists and SmartCards are supported. For an easy company-wide use, customizable templates can be used for certificate and request generation. The PKI structures can be imported and exported in several formats like PKCS#7, PKCS#12, PEM, DER, PKCS#8. All cryptographic data are stored in a byte order agnostic file format, portable across operating systems.
We can use yum or dnf to install xca on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xca.
Install xca 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 xca using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xca
Install xca 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 xca using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xca
How To Uninstall xca on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the xca package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xca
xca Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/xca
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/3b057d11d31d85acdd0fcbe8c288f0dfa3ea69
/usr/share/applications/xca.desktop
/usr/share/doc/xca
/usr/share/doc/xca/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xca/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/xca/changelog.html
/usr/share/doc/xca/database_schema.html
/usr/share/doc/xca/xca-1.html
/usr/share/doc/xca/xca-10.html
/usr/share/doc/xca/xca-11.html
/usr/share/doc/xca/xca-12.html
/usr/share/doc/xca/xca-13.html
/usr/share/doc/xca/xca-14.html
/usr/share/doc/xca/xca-15.html
/usr/share/doc/xca/xca-2.html
/usr/share/doc/xca/xca-3.html
/usr/share/doc/xca/xca-4.html
/usr/share/doc/xca/xca-5.html
/usr/share/doc/xca/xca-6.html
/usr/share/doc/xca/xca-7.html
/usr/share/doc/xca/xca-8.html
/usr/share/doc/xca/xca-9.html
/usr/share/doc/xca/xca.html
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/xca.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/fedora-xca.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/xca.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/mimetypes/application-x-xca-database.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-x-xca-database.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/xca.png
/usr/share/man/man1/xca.1.gz
/usr/share/mime/packages/xca.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/xca.xpm
/usr/share/xca
/usr/share/xca/CA.xca
/usr/share/xca/TLS_client.xca
/usr/share/xca/TLS_server.xca
/usr/share/xca/dn.txt
/usr/share/xca/eku.txt
/usr/share/xca/oids.txt
/usr/share/xca/xca_de.qm
/usr/share/xca/xca_es.qm
/usr/share/xca/xca_fr.qm
/usr/share/xca/xca_hr.qm
/usr/share/xca/xca_it.qm
/usr/share/xca/xca_ja.qm
/usr/share/xca/xca_nl.qm
/usr/share/xca/xca_pl.qm
/usr/share/xca/xca_pt_BR.qm
/usr/share/xca/xca_ru.qm
/usr/share/xca/xca_sk.qm
/usr/share/xca/xca_tr.qm
/usr/share/xca/xca_zh_CN.qm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xca on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.