How To Install gnupg1 on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnupg1
on CentOS 7.
What is gnupg1
GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) is a GNU utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures. GnuPG has advanced key management capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn’t use any patented algorithm, it is not compatible with any version of PGP2 (PGP2.x uses only IDEA for symmetric-key encryption, which is patented worldwide).
We can use yum
or dnf
to install gnupg1
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnupg1.
Install gnupg1 on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install gnupg1
using yum
by running the following command:
Install gnupg1 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.
After updating yum database, We can install gnupg1
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall gnupg1 on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the gnupg1
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnupg1
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.