How To Install openscap-utils on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openscap-utils on Fedora 36.
What is openscap-utils
The openscap-utils package contains command-line tools build on top of OpenSCAP library. Historically, openscap-utils included oscap tool which is now separated to openscap-scanner sub-package.
We can use yum or dnf to install openscap-utils on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install openscap-utils.
Install openscap-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 openscap-utils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install openscap-utils
Install openscap-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 openscap-utils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install openscap-utils
How To Uninstall openscap-utils on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the openscap-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove openscap-utils
openscap-utils Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/autotailor
/usr/bin/oscap-podman
/usr/bin/oscap-remediate-offline
/usr/bin/oscap-run-sce-script
/usr/bin/oscap-ssh
/usr/bin/oscap-vm
/usr/bin/scap-as-rpm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/74f31da486a119a9400e2f8952b40ca1d19fda
/usr/share/doc/openscap-utils
/usr/share/doc/openscap-utils/oscap-scan.cron
/usr/share/man/man8/autotailor.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/oscap-chroot.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/oscap-podman.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/oscap-remediate-offline.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/oscap-ssh.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/oscap-vm.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/scap-as-rpm.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openscap-utils on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).