How To Install acme-tiny on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install acme-tiny
on CentOS 7.
What is acme-tiny
This is a tiny, auditable script that you can throw on your server to issue and renew Let’s Encrypt certificates. Since it has to be run on your server and have access to your private Let’s Encrypt account key, I tried to make it as tiny as possible (currently less than 200 lines). The only prerequisites are python and openssl. Well, that and a web server - but then you only need this with a web server. This package adds a simple directory layout and timer service that runs acme_tiny on installed CSRs as the acme user for privilege separation.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install acme-tiny
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install acme-tiny.
Install acme-tiny on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install acme-tiny
using yum
by running the following command:
Install acme-tiny on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install acme-tiny
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall acme-tiny on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the acme-tiny
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install acme-tiny
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.