How To Install gnutls-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnutls-utils.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gnutls-utils.x86_64 is Command line tools for TLS protocol

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnutls-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is gnutls-utils.x86_64

GnuTLS is a secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS and DTLS protocols and technologies around them. It provides a simple C language application programming interface (API) to access the secure communications protocols as well as APIs to parse and write X.509, PKCS #12, OpenPGP and other required structures. This package contains command line TLS client and server and certificate manipulation tools.

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

Install gnutls-utils.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 gnutls-utils.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnutls-utils.x86_64

How To Uninstall gnutls-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gnutls-utils.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gnutls-utils.x86_64

gnutls-utils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/certtool
/usr/bin/crywrap
/usr/bin/danetool
/usr/bin/gnutls-cli
/usr/bin/gnutls-cli-debug
/usr/bin/gnutls-serv
/usr/bin/ocsptool
/usr/bin/p11tool
/usr/bin/psktool
/usr/bin/tpmtool
/usr/share/doc/gnutls-utils-3.3.29
/usr/share/doc/gnutls-utils-3.3.29/certtool.cfg
/usr/share/man/man1/certtool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/danetool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gnutls-cli-debug.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gnutls-cli.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gnutls-serv.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ocsptool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/p11tool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/psktool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tpmtool.1.gz

References

Summary

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