How To Install ocspd on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ocspd on CentOS 8.
What is ocspd
The ocspd is an RFC2560 compliant OCSPD responder. It can be used to verify the status of a certificate using OCSP clients (such as Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird/Apache).
We can use yum or dnf to install ocspd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ocspd.
Install ocspd on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install ocspd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ocspd
Install ocspd on CentOS 8 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 ocspd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ocspd
How To Uninstall ocspd on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ocspd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ocspd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ocspd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.