How To Install lua-md5 on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-md5 on CentOS 7. lua-md5 is Cryptographic Library for MD5 hashes for Lua

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-md5 on CentOS 7.

What is lua-md5

MD5 offers basic cryptographic facilities for Lua 5.1 (digest) function, a pair crypt/decrypt based on MD5 and CFB, and a pair crypt/decrypt based on DES with 56-bit keys.

We can use yum or dnf to install lua-md5 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lua-md5.

Install lua-md5 on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install lua-md5 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lua-md5

Install lua-md5 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 lua-md5 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lua-md5

How To Uninstall lua-md5 on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the lua-md5 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lua-md5

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-md5 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.