How To Install xca on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xca
on CentOS 7.
What is xca
X Certificate and Key management is a graphic interface for managing asymmetric keys like RSA or DSA, certificates and revocation lists. It is intended as a small CA for creation and signing certificates. It uses the OpenSSL library for the cryptographic operations. Certificate signing requests (PKCS#10), certificates (X509v3), the signing of requests, the creation of self-signed certificates, certificate revocation lists and SmartCards are supported. For an easy company-wide use, customizable templates can be used for certificate and request generation. The PKI structures can be imported and exported in several formats like PKCS#7, PKCS#12, PEM, DER, PKCS#8. All cryptographic data are stored in a byte order agnostic file format, portable across operating systems.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install xca
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xca.
Install xca on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install xca
using yum
by running the following command:
Install xca 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.
After updating yum database, We can install xca
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall xca on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the xca
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xca
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.