How To Install sedutil on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install sedutil on Rocky Linux 8. sedutil is Tools to manage the activation and use of self encrypting drives

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sedutil on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sedutil.

Install sedutil 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 sedutil using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sedutil

Install sedutil 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 sedutil using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sedutil

How To Uninstall sedutil on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove sedutil

sedutil Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/7558c0bd1baff5c5eaf485273c306561a09f6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/da381f9fcb79529ce7352cc74168787d21e734
/usr/libexec/linuxpba
/usr/sbin/sedutil-cli
/usr/share/doc/sedutil
/usr/share/doc/sedutil/Copyright.txt
/usr/share/doc/sedutil/PSIDRevert_LINUX.txt
/usr/share/doc/sedutil/README.md
/usr/share/doc/sedutil/ReadMe.txt
/usr/share/licenses/sedutil
/usr/share/licenses/sedutil/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man8/sedutil-cli.8.gz

References

Summary

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