How To Install libwhirlpool on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwhirlpool
on CentOS 7.
What is libwhirlpool
WHIRLPOOL cryptographic hash function library for UNIX and Linux. Also provides ‘whirlpoolsum’ utility for easy calculation and checking WHIRLPOOL hashes similar to ‘md5sum’ and ‘shaXXXsum’.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libwhirlpool
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libwhirlpool.
Install libwhirlpool on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libwhirlpool
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libwhirlpool
Install libwhirlpool 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 libwhirlpool
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libwhirlpool
How To Uninstall libwhirlpool on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libwhirlpool
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libwhirlpool
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwhirlpool
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.