How To Install aespipe on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aespipe
on CentOS 7.
What is aespipe
aespipe is an encryption tool that reads from standard input and writes to standard output. It uses the AES (Rijndael) cipher. It can be used as an encryption filter, to create and restore encrypted tar/cpio backup archives and to read/write and convert loop-AES compatible encrypted images. aespipe can be used for non-destructive in-place encryption of existing disk partitions for use with the loop-AES encrypted loop-back kernel module.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install aespipe
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aespipe.
Install aespipe on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install aespipe
using yum
by running the following command:
Install aespipe 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 aespipe
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall aespipe on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the aespipe
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aespipe
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.