How To Install nettle on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nettle on CentOS 7.
What is nettle
Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or less any context object-oriented languages (C++, Python, Pike, …), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space. Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or less any context object-oriented languages (C++, Python, Pike, …), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space.
We can use yum or dnf to install nettle on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nettle.
Install nettle on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install nettle using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nettle
Install nettle 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 nettle using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nettle
How To Uninstall nettle on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the nettle package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nettle
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nettle on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
