How To Install easy-rsa on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install easy-rsa on CentOS 8.
What is easy-rsa
This is a small RSA key management package, based on the openssl command line tool, that can be found in the easy-rsa subdirectory of the OpenVPN distribution. While this tool is primary concerned with key management for the SSL VPN application space, it can also be used for building web certificates.
We can use yum or dnf to install easy-rsa on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install easy-rsa.
Install easy-rsa on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install easy-rsa using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install easy-rsa
Install easy-rsa on CentOS 8 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 easy-rsa using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install easy-rsa
How To Uninstall easy-rsa on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the easy-rsa package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove easy-rsa
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install easy-rsa on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.