How To Install ca-certificates on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ca-certificates in Fedora 36. ca-certificates is The Mozilla CA root certificate bundle

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ca-certificates on Fedora 36.

What is `ca-certificates`

This package contains the set of CA certificates chosen by the Mozilla Foundation for use with the Internet PKI.

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

Install ca-certificates 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 ca-certificates using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ca-certificates

Install ca-certificates 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 ca-certificates using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ca-certificates

How To Uninstall ca-certificates on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the ca-certificates package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ca-certificates

ca-certificates Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/pki/ca-trust
/etc/pki/ca-trust/README
/etc/pki/ca-trust/ca-legacy.conf
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/README
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/edk2/README
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/edk2/cacerts.bin
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/java
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/java/README
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/java/cacerts
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/openssl
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/openssl/README
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/openssl/ca-bundle.trust.crt
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/README
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/email-ca-bundle.pem
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/objsign-ca-bundle.pem
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem
/etc/pki/ca-trust/source
/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/README
/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors
/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/blacklist
/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/blocklist
/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/ca-bundle.legacy.crt
/etc/pki/java
/etc/pki/java/cacerts
/etc/pki/tls
/etc/pki/tls/cert.pem
/etc/pki/tls/certs
/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.trust.crt
/etc/ssl
/etc/ssl/README
/etc/ssl/cert.pem
/etc/ssl/certs
/etc/ssl/ct_log_list.cnf
/etc/ssl/openssl.cnf
/usr/bin/ca-legacy
/usr/bin/update-ca-trust
/usr/share/man/man8/ca-legacy.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/update-ca-trust.8.gz
/usr/share/pki
/usr/share/pki/ca-trust-legacy
/usr/share/pki/ca-trust-legacy/ca-bundle.legacy.default.crt
/usr/share/pki/ca-trust-legacy/ca-bundle.legacy.disable.crt
/usr/share/pki/ca-trust-source
/usr/share/pki/ca-trust-source/README
/usr/share/pki/ca-trust-source/anchors
/usr/share/pki/ca-trust-source/blacklist
/usr/share/pki/ca-trust-source/blocklist
/usr/share/pki/ca-trust-source/ca-bundle.trust.p11-kit

References

ca-certificates website

Summary

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