How To Install nacl on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nacl on CentOS 7.
What is nacl
NaCl (pronounced “salt”) is a new easy-to-use high-speed software library for network communication, encryption, decryption, signatures, etc. NaCl’s goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build higher-level cryptographic tools.
We can use yum or dnf to install nacl on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nacl.
Install nacl on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install nacl using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nacl
Install nacl 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 nacl using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nacl
How To Uninstall nacl on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the nacl package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nacl
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nacl on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
