How To Install nss on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nss on AlmaLinux 8.
What is nss
Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security standards.
We can use yum or dnf to install nss on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nss.
Install nss on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install nss using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nss
Install nss on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install nss using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nss
How To Uninstall nss on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the nss package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nss
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nss on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.