How To Install sedutil on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sedutil on AlmaLinux 8.
What is sedutil
The Drive Trust Alliance software (sedutil) is an Open Source (GPLv3) effort to make Self Encrypting Drive technology freely available to everyone. It is a combination of the two known available Open Source code bases today sedutil is a Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) management program and Pre-Boot Authorization (PBA) image that will allow the activation and use of self encrypting drives that comply with the Trusted Computing Group Opal 2.0 SSC. This package provides the sedutil-cli and linuxpba binaries, but not the PBA image itself.
We can use yum or dnf to install sedutil on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sedutil.
Install sedutil on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install sedutil using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sedutil
Install sedutil on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install sedutil using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sedutil
How To Uninstall sedutil on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the sedutil package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sedutil
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sedutil on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.