How To Install paperkey on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install paperkey in Fedora 36. paperkey is An OpenPGP key archiver

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install paperkey on Fedora 36.

What is `paperkey`

A reasonable way to achieve a long term backup of OpenPGP (PGP, GnuPG, etc) keys is to print them out on paper. Paper and ink have amazingly long retention qualities - far longer than the magnetic or optical means that are generally used to back up computer data. A paper backup isn’t a replacement for the usual machine readable (tape, CD-R, DVD-R, etc) backups, but rather as an if-all-else-fails method of restoring a key.

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

Install paperkey 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 paperkey using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install paperkey

Install paperkey 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 paperkey using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install paperkey

How To Uninstall paperkey on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the paperkey package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove paperkey

paperkey Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/paperkey
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9/a8462a37e4abd69d32fcae536381acd836ef4a
/usr/share/doc/paperkey
/usr/share/doc/paperkey/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/paperkey/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/paperkey/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/paperkey/README
/usr/share/licenses/paperkey
/usr/share/licenses/paperkey/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/paperkey.1.gz

References

paperkey website

Summary

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