How To Install aespipe on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install aespipe on Rocky Linux 8. aespipe is AES-based encryption tool for tar/cpio and loop-aes imagemore

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aespipe on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aespipe.

Install aespipe on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install aespipe using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install aespipe

Install aespipe on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install aespipe using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install aespipe

How To Uninstall aespipe on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove aespipe

aespipe Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/aespipe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/8c6293519c71ac9bad3ed8d2f166381986dbcf
/usr/share/doc/aespipe
/usr/share/doc/aespipe/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/aespipe/README
/usr/share/doc/aespipe/examples
/usr/share/doc/aespipe/examples/bz2aespipe
/usr/share/man/man1/aespipe.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aespipe on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.