How To Install gnome-keyring on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-keyring on CentOS 7.
What is gnome-keyring
The gnome-keyring session daemon manages passwords and other types of secrets for the user, storing them encrypted with a main password. Applications can use the gnome-keyring library to integrate with the keyring. The gnome-keyring session daemon manages passwords and other types of secrets for the user, storing them encrypted with a main password. Applications can use the gnome-keyring library to integrate with the keyring.
We can use yum or dnf to install gnome-keyring on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnome-keyring.
Install gnome-keyring on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install gnome-keyring using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gnome-keyring
Install gnome-keyring 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 gnome-keyring using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gnome-keyring
How To Uninstall gnome-keyring on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the gnome-keyring package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gnome-keyring
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-keyring on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
