How To Install python3-trustme on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-trustme on CentOS 7. python3-trustme is #1 quality TLS certs while you wait, for the discerning tester

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-trustme on CentOS 7.

What is python3-trustme

You wrote a cool network client or server. It encrypts connections using TLS. Your test suite needs to make TLS connections to itself. Uh oh. Your test suite probably doesn’t have a valid TLS certificate. Now what? trustme is a tiny Python package that does one thing authority (CA) that you can use to generate fake TLS certs to use in your tests. Well, technically they are real certs, they are just signed by your CA, which nobody trusts. But you can trust it. Trust me.

We can use yum or dnf to install python3-trustme on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-trustme.

Install python3-trustme on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install python3-trustme using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python3-trustme

Install python3-trustme 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.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install python3-trustme using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python3-trustme

How To Uninstall python3-trustme on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the python3-trustme package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove python3-trustme

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-trustme on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.