How To Install libcacard on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcacard in Fedora 36. libcacard is CAC (Common Access Card) library

Introduction

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

What is libcacard

This library provides emulation of smart cards to a virtual card reader running in a guest virtual machine. It implements DoD CAC standard with separate pki containers (compatible coolkey), using certificates read from NSS.

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

Install libcacard 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 libcacard using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libcacard

Install libcacard 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 libcacard using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libcacard

How To Uninstall libcacard on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove libcacard

libcacard Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/077fd3e89260049b15e21f51cf9f2823d524f5
/usr/lib/libcacard.so.0
/usr/lib/libcacard.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libcacard
/usr/share/doc/libcacard/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/libcacard
/usr/share/licenses/libcacard/COPYING

References

Summary

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

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Introduction

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

What is libcacard

This library provides emulation of smart cards to a virtual card reader running in a guest virtual machine. It implements DoD CAC standard with separate pki containers (compatible coolkey), using certificates read from NSS.

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

Install libcacard 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 libcacard using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libcacard

Install libcacard 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 libcacard using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libcacard

How To Uninstall libcacard on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove libcacard

libcacard Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/67ec661c91cfa4e196df80eb698ad4fb79a644
/usr/lib64/libcacard.so.0
/usr/lib64/libcacard.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libcacard
/usr/share/doc/libcacard/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/libcacard
/usr/share/licenses/libcacard/COPYING

References

Summary

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