How To Install pwgen on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pwgen on Rocky Linux 8.
What is pwgen
pwgen generates random, meaningless but pronounceable passwords. These passwords contain either only lowercase letters, or upper and lower case, or upper case, lower case and numeric digits. Upper case letters and numeric digits are placed in a way that eases memorizing the password.
We can use yum or dnf to install pwgen on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pwgen.
Install pwgen 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 pwgen using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pwgen
Install pwgen 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 pwgen using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pwgen
How To Uninstall pwgen on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the pwgen package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pwgen
pwgen Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/pwgen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/715fb1c2cd6da87f4cf1e389688e05d682f050
/usr/share/doc/pwgen
/usr/share/doc/pwgen/changelog
/usr/share/licenses/pwgen
/usr/share/licenses/pwgen/copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/pwgen.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pwgen on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.