How To Install liboath on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboath on CentOS 7. liboath is Library for OATH handling

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboath on CentOS 7.

What is liboath

OATH stands for Open AuTHentication, which is the organization that specify the algorithms. Supported technologies include the event-based HOTP algorithm (RFC4226) and the time-based TOTP algorithm (RFC6238).

We can use yum or dnf to install liboath on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install liboath.

Install liboath on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install liboath using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install liboath

Install liboath 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 liboath using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install liboath

How To Uninstall liboath on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the liboath package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove liboath

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboath on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.