How To Install openssl-ibmpkcs11 on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssl-ibmpkcs11 in Fedora 36. openssl-ibmpkcs11 is IBM OpenSSL PKCS#11 engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssl-ibmpkcs11 on Fedora 36.

What is `openssl-ibmpkcs11`

This package contains a shared object OpenSSL dynamic engine for the use with a PKCS#11 implementation such as openCryptoki.

We can use yum or dnf to install openssl-ibmpkcs11 on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install openssl-ibmpkcs11.

Install openssl-ibmpkcs11 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 openssl-ibmpkcs11 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install openssl-ibmpkcs11

Install openssl-ibmpkcs11 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 openssl-ibmpkcs11 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openssl-ibmpkcs11

How To Uninstall openssl-ibmpkcs11 on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the openssl-ibmpkcs11 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove openssl-ibmpkcs11

openssl-ibmpkcs11 Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/30
/usr/lib/.build-id/30/287e19cc3430372ebbd6c51f24e58b7c2330d1
/usr/lib64/engines-3/ibmpkcs11.so
/usr/share/doc/openssl-ibmpkcs11
/usr/share/doc/openssl-ibmpkcs11/README
/usr/share/doc/openssl-ibmpkcs11/openssl.cnf.sample.x86_64
/usr/share/licenses/openssl-ibmpkcs11
/usr/share/licenses/openssl-ibmpkcs11/LICENSE

References

openssl-ibmpkcs11 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssl-ibmpkcs11 on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).