How To Install lua-md5 on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-md5 in Fedora 36. lua-md5 is Cryptographic Library for MD5 hashes for Lua

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-md5 on Fedora 36.

What is `lua-md5`

MD5 offers basic cryptographic facilities for Lua function, a pair crypt/decrypt based on MD5 and CFB, and a pair crypt/decrypt based on DES with 56-bit keys.

We can use yum or dnf to install lua-md5 on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lua-md5.

Install lua-md5 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 lua-md5 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lua-md5

Install lua-md5 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 lua-md5 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lua-md5

How To Uninstall lua-md5 on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the lua-md5 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lua-md5

lua-md5 Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/4dce1464bfcf30a0cef29905730f90d69d4d43
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc/c4a659c01dd47bb7afa216c43f44a51d635426
/usr/lib64/lua/5.4/des56.so
/usr/lib64/lua/5.4/md5
/usr/lib64/lua/5.4/md5/core.so
/usr/share/doc/lua-md5
/usr/share/doc/lua-md5/README.md
/usr/share/doc/lua-md5/doc.css
/usr/share/doc/lua-md5/index.html
/usr/share/doc/lua-md5/license.html
/usr/share/doc/lua-md5/manual.html
/usr/share/doc/lua-md5/md5.png
/usr/share/lua/5.4/md5.lua

References

lua-md5 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-md5 on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).