How To Install qatengine on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qatengine on CentOS 8.
What is qatengine
This package provides the Intel QuickAssist Technology OpenSSL Engine (an OpenSSL Plug-In Engine) which provides cryptographic acceleration for both hardware and optimized software using Intel QuickAssist Technology enabled Intel platforms.
We can use yum or dnf to install qatengine on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qatengine.
Install qatengine on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install qatengine using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qatengine
Install qatengine 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 qatengine using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qatengine
How To Uninstall qatengine on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the qatengine package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qatengine
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qatengine on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.