Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install botan2 on CentOS 8.
What is botan2
Botan is a BSD-licensed crypto library written in C++. It provides a wide variety of basic cryptographic algorithms, X.509 certificates and CRLs, PKCS #10 certificate requests, a filter/pipe message processing system, and a wide variety of other features, all written in portable C++. The API reference, tutorial, and examples may help impart the flavor of the library. This is the current stable release branch 2.x of Botan.
We can use yum or dnf to install botan2 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install botan2.
Install botan2 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 botan2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install botan2
Install botan2 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 botan2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install botan2
How To Uninstall botan2 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the botan2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove botan2
botan2 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/botan
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/458613e2f8700c75ef9bea130aee556133050f
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/e49619ac463a2b3341a44317b18e2985c892ab
/usr/lib64/libbotan-2.so.12
/usr/lib64/libbotan-2.so.12.12.1
/usr/share/doc/botan2
/usr/share/doc/botan2/authors.txt
/usr/share/doc/botan2/license.txt
/usr/share/doc/botan2/news.txt
/usr/share/doc/botan2/pgpkey.txt
/usr/share/licenses/botan2
/usr/share/licenses/botan2/license.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/botan.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install botan2 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
