How To Install sscg on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install sscg on CentOS 7. sscg is Simple SSL certificate generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sscg on CentOS 7.

What is sscg

A utility to aid in the creation of more secure “self-signed” certificates. The certificates created by this tool are generated in a way so as to create a CA certificate that can be safely imported into a client machine to trust the service certificate without needing to set up a full PKI environment and without exposing the machine to a risk of false signatures from the service certificate.

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

Install sscg on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install sscg using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sscg

Install sscg 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 sscg using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sscg

How To Uninstall sscg on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove sscg

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Summary

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