How To Install bouncycastle on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install bouncycastle on CentOS 7. bouncycastle is Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs for Java

Introduction

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

What is bouncycastle

The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms. This jar contains JCE provider and lightweight API for the Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs for JDK 1.5 to JDK 1.8.

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

Install bouncycastle on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install bouncycastle

Install bouncycastle 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 bouncycastle using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bouncycastle

How To Uninstall bouncycastle on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove bouncycastle

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Summary

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