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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install xca using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xca
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install xca using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xca
How To Uninstall xca on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the xca package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xca
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xca on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
