How To Install pakchois on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install pakchois on Rocky Linux 8. pakchois is A wrapper library for PKCS#11

Introduction

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

What is pakchois

pakchois is just another PKCS#11 wrapper library. pakchois aims to provide a thin wrapper over the PKCS#11 interface; offering a modern object-oriented C interface which does not hide any of the underlying interface, and avoids dependencies on any cryptography toolkit.

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

Install pakchois 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 pakchois using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pakchois

Install pakchois 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 pakchois using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pakchois

How To Uninstall pakchois on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove pakchois

pakchois Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/a968b690eea4dde0ddf268d36611d9dcea09eb
/usr/lib/libpakchois.so.0
/usr/lib/libpakchois.so.0.1.0
/usr/share/doc/pakchois
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/e1dd9bd3babddc8391319fc189817839d87672
/usr/lib64/libpakchois.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpakchois.so.0.1.0
/usr/share/doc/pakchois
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pakchois/README

References

Summary

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