How To Install openscap-utils on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install openscap-utils in Fedora 36. openscap-utils is OpenSCAP Utilities

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/).