How To Install fipscheck.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install fipscheck.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. fipscheck.x86_64 is A library for integrity verification of FIPS validated modules

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fipscheck.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is fipscheck.x86_64

FIPSCheck is a library for integrity verification of FIPS validated modules. The package also provides helper binaries for creation and verification of the HMAC-SHA256 checksum files.

We can use yum to install fipscheck.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fipscheck.x86_64.

Install fipscheck.x86_64 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 fipscheck.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fipscheck.x86_64

How To Uninstall fipscheck.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the fipscheck.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove fipscheck.x86_64

fipscheck.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/fipscheck
/usr/bin/fipshmac
/usr/lib64/fipscheck/fipscheck.hmac
/usr/share/doc/fipscheck-1.4.1
/usr/share/doc/fipscheck-1.4.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fipscheck-1.4.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fipscheck-1.4.1/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fipscheck-1.4.1/README
/usr/share/man/man8/fipscheck.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fipshmac.8.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fipscheck.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.