How To Install openssl on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openssl
on CentOS 7.
What is openssl
The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and protocols.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install openssl
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install openssl.
Install openssl on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install openssl
using yum
by running the following command:
Install openssl 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.
After updating yum database, We can install openssl
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall openssl on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the openssl
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openssl
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.