Information about the package, bouncycastle, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The bouncycastle package is designed for, Bouncy Castle Crypto Package for Java.
Package Name:
bouncycastle
Summary:
Bouncy Castle Crypto Package for Java
Description:
The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms. The package is organised so that it contains a light-weight API suitable for use in any environment (including the newly released J2ME) with the additional infrastructure to conform the algorithms to the JCE framework.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.46
Release:
1.el6
Size:
2.3 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the bouncycastle package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install bouncycastle
This command will install bouncycastle on the server.
yum remove bouncycastle
This command will un-install bouncycastle on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove bouncycastle, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove bouncycastle
This command will un-install bouncycastle on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove bouncycastle when using the -y flag.
yum update bouncycastle
This command will update bouncycastle to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove bouncycastle, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update bouncycastle
This command will update bouncycastle to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove bouncycastle when using the -y flag.
yum info bouncycastle
This command will show you core information about the bouncycastle package.
yum deplist bouncycastle
This command will show you the dependencies for bouncycastle. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update bouncycastle
This command will check if there is an update waiting on bouncycastle. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.