How To Install age on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install age in Fedora 36. age is Simple, modern and secure encryption tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install age on Fedora 36.

What is age

A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

We can use yum or dnf to install age on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install age.

Install age on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install age using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install age

Install age on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install age using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install age

How To Uninstall age on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove age

age Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/age
/usr/bin/age-keygen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/e5670770499f243acca1547b2cd8ab5ed3f5e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/af774f1f4ee03cbeeeecdbfe26086dc7ce5291
/usr/share/doc/age
/usr/share/doc/age/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/age
/usr/share/licenses/age/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/age-keygen.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/age.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install age on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).