Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aespipe on CentOS 8.
What is aespipe
aespipe is an encryption tool that reads from standard input and writes to standard output. It uses the AES (Rijndael) cipher. It can be used as an encryption filter, to create and restore encrypted tar/cpio backup archives and to read/write and convert loop-AES compatible encrypted images. aespipe can be used for non-destructive in-place encryption of existing disk partitions for use with the loop-AES encrypted loop-back kernel module.
We can use yum or dnf to install aespipe on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aespipe.
Install aespipe on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install aespipe using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install aespipe
Install aespipe on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install aespipe using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install aespipe
How To Uninstall aespipe on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the aespipe package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove aespipe
aespipe Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/aespipe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/8c6293519c71ac9bad3ed8d2f166381986dbcf
/usr/share/doc/aespipe
/usr/share/doc/aespipe/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/aespipe/README
/usr/share/doc/aespipe/examples
/usr/share/doc/aespipe/examples/bz2aespipe
/usr/share/man/man1/aespipe.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aespipe on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
