How To Install patatt on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install patatt in Fedora 36. patatt is Add cryptographic attestation to patches sent via email

Introduction

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

What is patatt

This utility allows an easy way to add end-to-end cryptographic attestation to patches sent via mail. It does so by adapting the DKIM email signature standard to include cryptographic signatures via the X-Developer-Signature email header.

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

Install patatt 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 patatt using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install patatt

Install patatt 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 patatt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install patatt

How To Uninstall patatt on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove patatt

patatt Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/patatt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/patatt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/patatt-0.4.9.dist-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/patatt-0.4.9.dist-info/COPYING
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/patatt-0.4.9.dist-info/INSTALLER
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/patatt-0.4.9.dist-info/METADATA
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/patatt-0.4.9.dist-info/WHEEL
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/patatt-0.4.9.dist-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/patatt-0.4.9.dist-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/patatt/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/patatt/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/patatt/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/patatt/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/share/doc/patatt
/usr/share/doc/patatt/DCO
/usr/share/doc/patatt/README.rst
/usr/share/doc/patatt/samples
/usr/share/doc/patatt/samples/ed25519-signed.txt
/usr/share/doc/patatt/samples/pgp-signed.txt
/usr/share/licenses/patatt
/usr/share/licenses/patatt/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/patatt.5.gz

References

Summary

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