How To Install oathtool on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install oathtool on Rocky Linux 8.

What is oathtool

A command line tool for generating and validating OTPs.

We can use yum or dnf to install oathtool on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install oathtool.

Install oathtool on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install oathtool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install oathtool

Install oathtool on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install oathtool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install oathtool

How To Uninstall oathtool on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the oathtool package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove oathtool

oathtool Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/oathtool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb/28a2d301d521470fcee5a8be78c74e0d9be654
/usr/share/doc/oathtool
/usr/share/doc/oathtool/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/oathtool.1.gz

References

• oathtool website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install oathtool on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.