How To Install gpgv-win32 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpgv-win32 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gpgv-win32
gpgv-win32 is:
GnuPG is GNU’s tool for secure communication and data storage.
gpgv is a stripped-down version of gnupg which is only able to check signatures. It is smaller than the full-blown gnupg and uses a different (and simpler) way to check that the public keys used to make the signature are trustworthy.
This is a win32 version of gpgv. It’s meant to be used by the win32-loader component of Debian-Installer.
Package: gpgv-win32 Architecture: all Version: 2.2.19-3ubuntu2 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: extra Section: universe/utils Source: gnupg2 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GnuPG Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1134 Suggests: wine Filename: pool/universe/g/gnupg2/gpgv-win32_2.2.19-3ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 476696 MD5sum: 51db5f181c17cdf3fce58009aab14934 SHA1: 22ea0dd5eedfd092931cba798014d4b4476c0783 SHA256: 7b7ab0e7b7e0b7c22a7ebbc4bd0db4a70d829a180e37e8514ea6757d03679c5a Homepage: https://www.gnupg.org/ Description-en: GNU privacy guard - signature verification tool (win32 build) GnuPG is GNU’s tool for secure communication and data storage.
gpgv is a stripped-down version of gnupg which is only able to check signatures. It is smaller than the full-blown gnupg and uses a different (and simpler) way to check that the public keys used to make the signature are trustworthy.
This is a win32 version of gpgv. It’s meant to be used by the win32-loader component of Debian-Installer.
There are three methods to install gpgv-win32 on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gpgv-win32 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gpgv-win32 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gpgv-win32
Install gpgv-win32 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gpgv-win32 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gpgv-win32
Install gpgv-win32 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gpgv-win32 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gpgv-win32
How To Uninstall gpgv-win32 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gpgv-win32 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gpgv-win32
Uninstall gpgv-win32 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gpgv-win32 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gpgv-win32
Remove gpgv-win32 Configurations and Data
To remove gpgv-win32 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gpgv-win32
Remove gpgv-win32 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gpgv-win32 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gpgv-win32
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpgv-win32 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
