How To Install gnome-keyring on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-keyring on Rocky Linux 8. gnome-keyring is Framework for managing passwords and other secrets

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-keyring on Rocky Linux 8.

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.

We can use yum or dnf to install gnome-keyring on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnome-keyring.

Install gnome-keyring on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gnome-keyring using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-keyring

Install gnome-keyring on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gnome-keyring using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-keyring

How To Uninstall gnome-keyring on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the gnome-keyring package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gnome-keyring

gnome-keyring Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-secrets.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop
/usr/bin/gnome-keyring
/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-3
/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/c09c87869b73e8a04b243e2aec6a4e88783942
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/06448aebbc89554aaed1d6e40d22cbc3b7c7ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/1d1755f3c281af27751fc9a4da4276b212a2a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/0a7dda4663a7d34eb997b15c700765f34a9629
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/190a549a97c9ea34c81521aa95a7e8c1c72f2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9/713ef91931911b7993ab921c6f442107058117
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/87c50b93cf7fd26a69de20567a3c08b08dad64
/usr/lib64/gnome-keyring
/usr/lib64/gnome-keyring/devel
/usr/lib64/gnome-keyring/devel/gkm-gnome2-store-standalone.so
/usr/lib64/gnome-keyring/devel/gkm-secret-store-standalone.so
/usr/lib64/gnome-keyring/devel/gkm-ssh-store-standalone.so
/usr/lib64/gnome-keyring/devel/gkm-xdg-store-standalone.so
/usr/lib64/pkcs11
/usr/lib64/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so
/usr/share/GConf/gsettings/org.gnome.crypto.cache.convert
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.secrets.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.keyring.service
/usr/share/doc/gnome-keyring
/usr/share/doc/gnome-keyring/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gnome-keyring/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gnome-keyring/README
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.crypto.cache.gschema.xml
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-keyring
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-keyring/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-keyring/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@shaw/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/mg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-keyring.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-keyring-3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-keyring-daemon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-keyring.1.gz

References

gnome-keyring website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-keyring on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.