How To Install guile-gcrypt on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install guile-gcrypt on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is guile-gcrypt
guile-gcrypt is:
Guile-Gcrypt provides a Guile 2.x interface to a subset of the GNU Libgcrypt crytographic library, which is itself used by the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG).
Guile-Gcrypt provides modules for cryptographic hash functions, message authentication codes (MAC), public-key crytography, strong randomness, and more. It is implemented using the foreign function interface (FFI) of Guile.
There are three methods to install guile-gcrypt 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 guile-gcrypt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install guile-gcrypt using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install guile-gcrypt
Install guile-gcrypt Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install guile-gcrypt using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install guile-gcrypt
Install guile-gcrypt 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 guile-gcrypt using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install guile-gcrypt
How To Uninstall guile-gcrypt on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the guile-gcrypt package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove guile-gcrypt
Uninstall guile-gcrypt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall guile-gcrypt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove guile-gcrypt
Remove guile-gcrypt Configurations and Data
To remove guile-gcrypt configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge guile-gcrypt
Remove guile-gcrypt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove guile-gcrypt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge guile-gcrypt
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install guile-gcrypt package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
