How To Install libscrypt on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libscrypt
on CentOS 7.
What is libscrypt
This is a library that implements the secure password hashing function “scrypt”.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libscrypt
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libscrypt.
Install libscrypt on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libscrypt
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libscrypt 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 libscrypt
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libscrypt on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libscrypt
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libscrypt
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.