How To Install ca-certificates.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ca-certificates.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. ca-certificates.noarch is The Mozilla CA root certificate bundle

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ca-certificates.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `ca-certificates.noarch`

This package contains the set of CA certificates chosen by the Mozilla Foundation for use with the Internet PKI.

We can use yum to install ca-certificates.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ca-certificates.noarch.

Install ca-certificates.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ca-certificates.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ca-certificates.noarch

How To Uninstall ca-certificates.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ca-certificates.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ca-certificates.noarch

ca-certificates.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/pki/ca-trust
/etc/pki/ca-trust/README
/etc/pki/ca-trust/ca-legacy.conf
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/README
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/java
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/java/README
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/java/cacerts
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/openssl
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/openssl/README
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/openssl/ca-bundle.trust.crt
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/README
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/email-ca-bundle.pem
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/objsign-ca-bundle.pem
/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem
/etc/pki/ca-trust/source
/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/README
/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors
/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/blacklist
/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/ca-bundle.legacy.crt
/etc/pki/java
/etc/pki/java/cacerts
/etc/pki/tls
/etc/pki/tls/cert.pem
/etc/pki/tls/certs
/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.trust.crt
/etc/ssl
/etc/ssl/certs
/usr/bin/ca-legacy
/usr/bin/update-ca-trust
/usr/share/doc/ca-certificates-2021.2.50/README
/usr/share/man/man8/ca-legacy.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/update-ca-trust.8.gz
/usr/share/pki
/usr/share/pki/ca-trust-legacy
/usr/share/pki/ca-trust-legacy/ca-bundle.legacy.default.crt
/usr/share/pki/ca-trust-legacy/ca-bundle.legacy.disable.crt
/usr/share/pki/ca-trust-source
/usr/share/pki/ca-trust-source/README
/usr/share/pki/ca-trust-source/anchors
/usr/share/pki/ca-trust-source/blacklist
/usr/share/pki/ca-trust-source/ca-bundle.trust.p11-kit

References

ca-certificates.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ca-certificates.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.