How To Install clevis on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis on CentOS 7.
What is clevis
Clevis is a framework for automated decryption. It allows you to encrypt data using sophisticated unlocking policies which enable decryption to occur automatically. The clevis package provides basic encryption/decryption policy support. Users can use this directly; but most commonly, it will be used as a building block for other packages. For example, see the clevis-luks and clevis-dracut packages for automatic root volume unlocking of LUKSv1 volumes during early boot.
We can use yum or dnf to install clevis on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clevis.
Install clevis on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install clevis using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install clevis
Install clevis 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 clevis using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install clevis
How To Uninstall clevis on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the clevis package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove clevis
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
