How To Install botan on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install botan on CentOS 7.
What is botan
Botan is a BSD-licensed crypto library written in C++. It provides a wide variety of basic cryptographic algorithms, X.509 certificates and CRLs, PKCS #10 certificate requests, a filter/pipe message processing system, and a wide variety of other features, all written in portable C++. The API reference, tutorial, and examples may help impart the flavor of the library.
We can use yum or dnf to install botan on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install botan.
Install botan on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install botan using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install botan
Install botan 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 botan using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install botan
How To Uninstall botan on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the botan package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove botan
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install botan on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
