How To Install libxcrypt-compat on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxcrypt-compat on Fedora 36.
What is libxcrypt-compat
This package contains the library providing the compatibility API for applications that are linked against glibc’s libxcrypt, or that are still using the unsafe and deprecated, encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, and fcrypt functions, which are still required by recent versions of POSIX, the Single UNIX Specification, and various other standards. All existing binary executables linked against glibc’s libcrypt should work unmodified with the library supplied by this package.
We can use yum or dnf to install libxcrypt-compat on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libxcrypt-compat.
Install libxcrypt-compat 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 libxcrypt-compat using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libxcrypt-compat
Install libxcrypt-compat 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 libxcrypt-compat using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libxcrypt-compat
How To Uninstall libxcrypt-compat on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the libxcrypt-compat package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libxcrypt-compat
libxcrypt-compat Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/1e706124ff7d62767db19c99477f7b0a992809
/usr/lib64/fipscheck
/usr/lib64/fipscheck/libcrypt.so.1.1.0.hmac
/usr/lib64/fipscheck/libcrypt.so.1.hmac
/usr/lib64/libcrypt.so.1
/usr/lib64/libcrypt.so.1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libxcrypt/README.posix
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxcrypt-compat on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).