Installing libica from the distribution packages

To make use of the described libica hardware support for cryptographic functions, it is necessary to install the libica package. Obtain the libica package from your distribution provider as soon as available (RPM or DEB) for package manager installation.

The libica library is available as an RPM or DEB package named libica4-<version> within your distribution package.

Mainly there are two packages, a library package and a development package. Ubuntu and recent SUSE Linux Enterprise Server distributions separated the icastats and icainfo utilities into the libica-tools package.

See your Linux® distribution documentation for how to install an RPM or DEB package. To check whether the libica library is installed, issue:

# rpm -qa | grep -i libica  /* for Redhat and SUSE  */

# dpkg -l | grep -i libica  /* for Ubuntu */