How To Install bouncycastle on CentOS 7
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.
