How To Install trousers on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install trousers on Rocky Linux 8. trousers is TCG’s Software Stack v1.2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install trousers on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `trousers`

TrouSerS is an implementation of the Trusted Computing Group’s Software Stack (TSS) specification. You can use TrouSerS to write applications that make use of your TPM hardware. TPM hardware can create, store and use RSA keys securely (without ever being exposed in memory), verify a platform’s software state using cryptographic hashes and more.

We can use yum or dnf to install trousers on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install trousers.

Install trousers 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 trousers using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install trousers

Install trousers 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 trousers using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install trousers

How To Uninstall trousers on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove trousers

trousers Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/tcsd.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b/325d19fe92c03845b97060ca1cc0317f4773df
/usr/lib/systemd/system/tcsd.service
/usr/sbin/tcsd
/usr/share/doc/trousers
/usr/share/doc/trousers/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/trousers/README
/usr/share/man/man5/tcsd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tcsd.8.gz
/var/lib/tpm

References

trousers website

Summary

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