How To Install openscap-daemon on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install openscap-daemon in Fedora 36. openscap-daemon is Manages continuous SCAP scans of your infrastructure

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openscap-daemon on Fedora 36.

What is openscap-daemon

OpenSCAP-daemon is a service that performs SCAP scans of bare-metal machines, virtual machines and containers. These scans can be either one-shot or continuous according to a schedule. You can interact with the service using the provided oscapd-cli tool or via the DBus interface.

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

Install openscap-daemon 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 openscap-daemon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install openscap-daemon

Install openscap-daemon 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 openscap-daemon using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openscap-daemon

How To Uninstall openscap-daemon on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the openscap-daemon package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove openscap-daemon

openscap-daemon Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.oscapd.conf
/usr/bin/oscapd
/usr/bin/oscapd-cli
/usr/bin/oscapd-evaluate
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon-0.1.10-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/async_tools.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/async_tools.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/cli_helpers.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/cli_helpers.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/compat.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/compat.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/config.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/config.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/cve_feed_manager.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/cve_feed_manager.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/dbus_daemon.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/dbus_daemon.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/dbus_utils.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/dbus_utils.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/et_helpers.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/et_helpers.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/evaluation_spec.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/evaluation_spec.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/oscap_helpers.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/oscap_helpers.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/system.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/system.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/task.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/task.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/version.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/__pycache__/version.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/async_tools.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cli_helpers.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/compat.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/config.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_feed_manager.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/applicationconfiguration.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/applicationconfiguration.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/cve_scanner.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/cve_scanner.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/generate_summary.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/generate_summary.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/image_scanner_client.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/image_scanner_client.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/reporter.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/reporter.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/scan.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/scan.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/scanner_client.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/scanner_client.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/scanner_error.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/__pycache__/scanner_error.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/applicationconfiguration.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/cve_scanner.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/generate_summary.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/image_scanner_client.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/reporter.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/scan.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/scanner_client.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/cve_scanner/scanner_error.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/dbus_daemon.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/dbus_utils.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/et_helpers.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/evaluation_spec.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/oscap_helpers.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/system.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/task.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openscap_daemon/version.py
/usr/lib/systemd/system/oscapd.service
/usr/share/doc/openscap-daemon/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/openscap-daemon/README.md
/usr/share/man/man8/oscapd-cli.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/oscapd-evaluate.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/oscapd.8.gz

References

Summary

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