Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bouncycastle-mail on CentOS 8.
What is bouncycastle-mail
The Bouncy Castle Java S/MIME APIs for handling S/MIME protocols. This jar contains S/MIME APIs for JDK 1.5 to JDK 1.8. The APIs can be used in conjunction with a JCE/JCA provider such as the one provided with the Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs. The JavaMail API and the Java activation framework will also be needed.
We can use yum or dnf to install bouncycastle-mail on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bouncycastle-mail.
Install bouncycastle-mail 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 bouncycastle-mail using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bouncycastle-mail
Install bouncycastle-mail 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 bouncycastle-mail using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bouncycastle-mail
How To Uninstall bouncycastle-mail on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the bouncycastle-mail package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bouncycastle-mail
bouncycastle-mail Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/java/bcmail.jar
/usr/share/licenses/bouncycastle-mail
/usr/share/licenses/bouncycastle-mail/LICENSE.html
/usr/share/maven-metadata/bouncycastle-bcmail.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/bcmail.pom
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bouncycastle-mail on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
