How To Install keychain on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install keychain on AlmaLinux 8.
What is keychain
Keychain is a manager for OpenSSH, ssh.com, Sun SSH and GnuPG agents. It acts as a front-end to the agents, allowing you to easily have one long-running agent process per system, rather than per login session. This dramatically reduces the number of times you need to enter your passphrase from once per new login session to once every time your local machine is rebooted.
We can use yum or dnf to install keychain on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install keychain.
Install keychain on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install keychain using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install keychain
Install keychain on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install keychain using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install keychain
How To Uninstall keychain on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the keychain package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove keychain
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install keychain on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.