How To Install cryptobone on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install cryptobone in Fedora 36. cryptobone is Secure Communication Under Your Control

Introduction

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

What is cryptobone

The Crypto Bone is a secure messaging system that makes sure a user’s email is always encrypted without burdening the user with the message key management. Based on a GUI and a separate daemon, both ease-of-use and security are assured by a novel approach to encryption key management. While the message keys are secured by a daemon running on the Linux machine, additional protection can be achieved by using an external device for storing encryption keys. This external device can be another Linux computer dedicated to this task or a Beagle Bone or a Raspberry Pi. (https

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

Install cryptobone 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 cryptobone using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cryptobone

Install cryptobone 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 cryptobone using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cryptobone

How To Uninstall cryptobone on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove cryptobone

cryptobone Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/activate-cryptobone
/usr/bin/cryptobone
/usr/bin/external-cryptobone
/usr/bin/external-cryptobone-admin
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/c1c2042cb2d4d7344e825a3e443c262d411a76
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/4817bfdaa289ba4880085bf0f13a7a1472e164
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/45957c9479a1d2481fcc35484ef7fd2293daa9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3/82486e1dadc37efa2a631f81d66b01f5a1f571
/usr/lib/cryptobone
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ALLINONE
/usr/lib/cryptobone/COPYING
/usr/lib/cryptobone/COPYING-cryptlib
/usr/lib/cryptobone/GUI
/usr/lib/cryptobone/GUI/cryptobone.desktop
/usr/lib/cryptobone/GUI/cryptobone.png
/usr/lib/cryptobone/GUI/external-cryptobone-admin.desktop
/usr/lib/cryptobone/GUI/external-cryptobone-admin.png
/usr/lib/cryptobone/README
/usr/lib/cryptobone/README-cryptlib
/usr/lib/cryptobone/bin
/usr/lib/cryptobone/bin/analysebatchfile
/usr/lib/cryptobone/bin/cbb-poweroff
/usr/lib/cryptobone/bin/createfetchmailrc
/usr/lib/cryptobone/bin/processmessage
/usr/lib/cryptobone/bin/restoremessages
/usr/lib/cryptobone/bin/savemessages
/usr/lib/cryptobone/bin/sendmessage
/usr/lib/cryptobone/cbcontrol
/usr/lib/cryptobone/cbcontrol.functions
/usr/lib/cryptobone/check
/usr/lib/cryptobone/createmasterkey
/usr/lib/cryptobone/cron.fetchmail
/usr/lib/cryptobone/cryptobone
/usr/lib/cryptobone/cryptoboned
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/bin
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/bin/analysebatchfile
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/bin/cbb-poweroff
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/bin/createfetchmailrc
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/bin/processmessage
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/bin/restoremessages
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/bin/savemessages
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/bin/sendmessage
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/cbcontrol
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/cbcontrol.functions
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/cron.fetchmail
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/cryptoboneexternd
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/cryptoboneshell
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/echotest
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/externalcryptobone
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/firewall
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/init.d
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/init.d/cryptoboneexternd
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/init.d/sshd_config-external
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/initialkeysetup
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/rc.local
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/reset
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/src
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/src/cryptlib.h
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/src/cryptoboneexternd.c
/usr/lib/cryptobone/ext/src/makefile
/usr/lib/cryptobone/fingerprints
/usr/lib/cryptobone/getIP
/usr/lib/cryptobone/getlocalsecret
/usr/lib/cryptobone/init.d
/usr/lib/cryptobone/init.d/cryptoboned
/usr/lib/cryptobone/initdatabase
/usr/lib/cryptobone/keys
/usr/lib/cryptobone/libclr.so.3.4
/usr/lib/cryptobone/libclr.so.3.4.5
/usr/lib/cryptobone/rc.local
/usr/lib/cryptobone/selinux
/usr/lib/cryptobone/selinux/cryptobone.mod
/usr/lib/cryptobone/selinux/cryptobone.pp
/usr/lib/cryptobone/selinux/cryptobone.te
/usr/lib/cryptobone/selinux/cryptobone.te.1.0.2
/usr/lib/cryptobone/selinux/updatepp
/usr/lib/cryptobone/src
/usr/lib/cryptobone/src/cryptlib.h
/usr/lib/cryptobone/src/cryptoboned.c
/usr/lib/cryptobone/src/initdatabase.c
/usr/lib/cryptobone/src/makefile
/usr/lib/cryptobone/version
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cryptobone-dbinit.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cryptobone-fetchmail.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cryptobone-fetchmail.timer
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cryptoboned.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cryptoboneexternd.service
/usr/share/applications/cryptobone.desktop
/usr/share/applications/external-cryptobone-admin.desktop
/usr/share/doc/cryptobone/README
/usr/share/doc/cryptobone/README-cryptlib
/usr/share/icons/default/cryptobone.png
/usr/share/icons/default/external-cryptobone-admin.png
/usr/share/licenses/cryptobone/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/cryptobone/COPYING-cryptlib
/usr/share/man/man8/activate-cryptobone.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cbcontrol.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cryptobone.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cryptoboned.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/external-cryptobone-admin.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/external-cryptobone.8.gz

References

Summary

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