How To Install R-sodium on Fedora 36
In this tutorial we learn how to install R-sodium in Fedora 36. R-sodium is A Modern and Easy-to-Use Crypto Library
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install R-sodium on Fedora 36.
What is R-sodium
Bindings to ’libsodium’ decryption, signatures, password hashing and more. Sodium uses curve25519, a state-of-the-art Diffie-Hellman function by Daniel Bernstein, which has become very popular after it was discovered that the NSA had backdoored Dual EC DRBG.
We can use yum or dnf to install R-sodium on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install R-sodium.
Install R-sodium 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 R-sodium using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install R-sodium
Install R-sodium 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 R-sodium using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install R-sodium
How To Uninstall R-sodium on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the R-sodium package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove R-sodium
R-sodium Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/d5fc7200ed90ae8c9ce12e0a2c980e1b17ea0d
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/DESCRIPTION
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/INDEX
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/LICENSE
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/Meta
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/Meta/Rd.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/Meta/features.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/Meta/hsearch.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/Meta/links.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/Meta/nsInfo.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/Meta/package.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/Meta/vignette.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/NAMESPACE
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/NEWS
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/R
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/R/sodium
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/R/sodium.rdb
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/R/sodium.rdx
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/doc
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/doc/crypto101.R
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/doc/crypto101.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/doc/crypto101.rmd
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/doc/index.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/doc/intro.R
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/doc/intro.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/doc/intro.rmd
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/AnIndex
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/Authenticated+20encryption.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/Diffie-Hellman.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/Hash+20functions.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/Key+20generation.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/Password+20storage.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/Signatures.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/Simple+20encryption.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/Sodium+20utilities.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/Stream+20ciphers.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/Symmetric+20encryption.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/aliases.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/auth_decrypt.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/auth_encrypt.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/bin2hex.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/chacha20.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/data_decrypt.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/data_encrypt.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/data_tag.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/diffie.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/diffie_hellman.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/hash.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/hashing.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/helpers.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/hex2bin.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/keygen.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/messaging.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/password.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/password_store.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/password_verify.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/paths.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/pubkey.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/random.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/salsa20.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/scrypt.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/sha256.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/sha512.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/shorthash.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/sig.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/sig_keygen.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/sig_pubkey.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/sig_sign.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/sig_verify.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/simple.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/simple_decrypt.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/simple_encrypt.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/sodium.rdb
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/sodium.rdx
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/stream.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/symmetric.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/help/xsalsa20.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/html/00Index.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/html/R.css
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/html/diffie.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/html/hash.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/html/helpers.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/html/keygen.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/html/messaging.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/html/password.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/html/sig.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/html/simple.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/html/stream.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/html/symmetric.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/libs
/usr/lib64/R/library/sodium/libs/sodium.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install R-sodium on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).