How To Install gap-pkg-crypting on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-pkg-crypting in Fedora 36. gap-pkg-crypting is Hashes and Crypto in GAP

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gap-pkg-crypting on Fedora 36.

What is gap-pkg-crypting

This package implements some cryptographic primitives. At the moment this is a custom implementation of SHA256 and HMAC, which is needed to sign messages in the Jupyter kernel. Bindings to a full crypto library are a possibility for the future, and pull-requests (after discussion) are appreciated.

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

Install gap-pkg-crypting 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 gap-pkg-crypting using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gap-pkg-crypting

Install gap-pkg-crypting 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 gap-pkg-crypting using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gap-pkg-crypting

How To Uninstall gap-pkg-crypting on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the gap-pkg-crypting package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gap-pkg-crypting

gap-pkg-crypting Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/30e023c5df46cfffe9808ec3232e37cd1afd5a
/usr/lib/gap/pkg/crypting-0.10.1
/usr/lib/gap/pkg/crypting-0.10.1/PackageInfo.g
/usr/lib/gap/pkg/crypting-0.10.1/bin
/usr/lib/gap/pkg/crypting-0.10.1/bin/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-default64-kv7
/usr/lib/gap/pkg/crypting-0.10.1/bin/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-default64-kv7/crypting.so
/usr/lib/gap/pkg/crypting-0.10.1/gap
/usr/lib/gap/pkg/crypting-0.10.1/gap/crypting.gd
/usr/lib/gap/pkg/crypting-0.10.1/gap/crypting.gi
/usr/lib/gap/pkg/crypting-0.10.1/init.g
/usr/lib/gap/pkg/crypting-0.10.1/makedoc.g
/usr/lib/gap/pkg/crypting-0.10.1/read.g
/usr/lib/gap/pkg/crypting-0.10.1/tst
/usr/lib/gap/pkg/crypting-0.10.1/tst/hmacsha256.tst
/usr/lib/gap/pkg/crypting-0.10.1/tst/sha256.tst
/usr/lib/gap/pkg/crypting-0.10.1/tst/testall.g
/usr/share/doc/gap-pkg-crypting
/usr/share/doc/gap-pkg-crypting/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/gap-pkg-crypting
/usr/share/licenses/gap-pkg-crypting/COPYRIGHT.md
/usr/share/licenses/gap-pkg-crypting/LICENSE

References

Summary

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