How To Install yapet on Fedora 34

yapet is Yet Another Password Encryption Tool

Introduction

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

What is yapet

YAPET is a text based password manager using the AES-256 encryption algorithm to store passwords and associated information encrypted on disk. Its primary aim is to provide a safe way to store passwords in a file on disk while having a small footprint, and compiling and running under today’s most popular Unix Systems. The password records are protected by a master password which is used to encrypt and decrypt the password records.

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

Install yapet 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 yapet using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install yapet

Install yapet 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 yapet using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yapet

How To Uninstall yapet on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove yapet

yapet Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/csv2yapet
/usr/bin/yapet
/usr/bin/yapet2csv
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e/b614fc5847d61dcee318c11fe75381e572202a
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/1a060a4e7cb96845a9dcba41af8d8a4609c244
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/b1d0510ceac551a11603733c7b799715a19475
/usr/share/doc/yapet
/usr/share/doc/yapet/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/yapet/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/yapet/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/yapet/README
/usr/share/licenses/yapet
/usr/share/licenses/yapet/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/yapet/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libyacurs.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/yapet.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/csv2yapet.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yapet.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yapet2csv.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/yapet_colors.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/yapet_config.5.gz

References

Summary

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