How To Install clevis-luks on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis-luks on CentOS 7.
What is clevis-luks
LUKSv1 integration for clevis. This package allows you to bind a LUKSv1 volume to a clevis unlocking policy. For automated unlocking, an unlocker will also be required. See, for example, clevis-dracut and clevis-udisks2.
We can use yum or dnf to install clevis-luks on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clevis-luks.
Install clevis-luks 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-luks using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install clevis-luks
Install clevis-luks 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-luks using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install clevis-luks
How To Uninstall clevis-luks on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the clevis-luks package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove clevis-luks
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis-luks on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
