How To Install beecrypt on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install beecrypt on CentOS 7. beecrypt is An open source cryptography library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install beecrypt on CentOS 7.

What is beecrypt

BeeCrypt is an ongoing project to provide a strong and fast cryptography toolkit. Includes entropy sources, random generators, block ciphers, hash functions, message authentication codes, multiprecision integer routines and public key primitives.

We can use yum or dnf to install beecrypt on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install beecrypt.

Install beecrypt on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install beecrypt

Install beecrypt 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.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install beecrypt

How To Uninstall beecrypt on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove beecrypt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install beecrypt on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.