How to Install and Uninstall libsodium.x86_64 Package on Oracle Linux 8

Last updated: May 10,2024

1. Install "libsodium.x86_64" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install libsodium.x86_64 on Oracle Linux 8


    
        
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                sudo dnf install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libsodium.x86_64" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall libsodium.x86_64 on Oracle Linux 8:


    
        
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                sudo dnf remove
            
                        
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                sudo dnf autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libsodium.x86_64 package on Oracle Linux 8

Last metadata expiration check: 1:15:27 ago on Mon Sep 12 02:51:38 2022.
Installed Packages
Name : libsodium
Version : 1.0.18
Release : 2.el8
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 399 k
Source : libsodium-1.0.18-2.el8.src.rpm
Repository : @System
From repo : epel
Summary : The Sodium crypto library
URL : http://libsodium.org/
License : ISC
Description : Sodium is a new, easy-to-use software library for encryption, decryption,
: signatures, password hashing and more. It is a portable, cross-compilable,
: installable, packageable fork of NaCl, with a compatible API, and an extended
: API to improve usability even further. Its goal is to provide all of the core
: operations needed to build higher-level cryptographic tools. The design
: choices emphasize security, and "magic constants" have clear rationales.
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: The same cannot be said of NIST curves, where the specific origins of certain
: constants are not described by the standards. And despite the emphasis on
: higher security, primitives are faster across-the-board than most
: implementations of the NIST standards.