Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bouncycastle on CentOS 8.
What is bouncycastle
The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms. This jar contains JCE provider and lightweight API for the Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs for JDK 1.5 to JDK 1.8.
We can use yum or dnf to install bouncycastle on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bouncycastle.
Install bouncycastle 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 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bouncycastle
Install bouncycastle 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 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bouncycastle
How To Uninstall bouncycastle on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the bouncycastle package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bouncycastle
bouncycastle Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/java/security/security.d/2000-org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle/CONTRIBUTORS.html
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle/LICENSE.html
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle/docs
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle/docs/GnuTLSSetup.html
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle/docs/OpenSSLSetup.html
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle/docs/index.html
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle/docs/releasenotes.html
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle/docs/specifications.html
/usr/share/doc/bouncycastle/index.html
/usr/share/java/bcprov.jar
/usr/share/licenses/bouncycastle
/usr/share/licenses/bouncycastle/LICENSE.html
/usr/share/maven-metadata/bouncycastle-bcprov.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/bcprov.pom
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bouncycastle on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
