How To Install ima-evm-utils on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ima-evm-utils
on Fedora 36.
What is ima-evm-utils
The Trusted Computing Group(TCG) run-time Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA) maintains a list of hash values of executables and other sensitive system files, as they are read or executed. These are stored in the file systems extended attributes. The Extended Verification Module (EVM) prevents unauthorized changes to these extended attributes on the file system. ima-evm-utils is used to prepare the file system for these extended attributes.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ima-evm-utils
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ima-evm-utils.
Install ima-evm-utils 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 ima-evm-utils
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ima-evm-utils
Install ima-evm-utils 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 ima-evm-utils
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ima-evm-utils
How To Uninstall ima-evm-utils on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the ima-evm-utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ima-evm-utils
ima-evm-utils Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/evmctl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/9f8ca68d5b560b94212492ef554bf91b21c383
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/ac1154ec167659bbb33c1a5011468a4ce671b7
/usr/lib64/libimaevm.so.3
/usr/lib64/libimaevm.so.3.0.0
/usr/share/doc/ima-evm-utils
/usr/share/doc/ima-evm-utils/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ima-evm-utils/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ima-evm-utils/README
/usr/share/licenses/ima-evm-utils
/usr/share/licenses/ima-evm-utils/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/evmctl.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ima-evm-utils
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).