How To Install ccrypt on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ccrypt
on CentOS 7.
What is ccrypt
ccrypt is a utility for encrypting and decrypting files and streams. It was designed as a replacement for the standard unix crypt utility, which is notorious for using a very weak encryption algorithm.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ccrypt
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ccrypt.
Install ccrypt on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install ccrypt
using yum
by running the following command:
Install ccrypt 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.
After updating yum database, We can install ccrypt
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall ccrypt on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ccrypt
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ccrypt
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.