How To Install guile-gnutls on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install guile-gnutls on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is guile-gnutls
guile-gnutls is:
GnuTLS is a portable library which implements the Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS 1.0, 1.2) protocols.
GnuTLS features support for:
- certificate path validation, as well as DANE and trust on first use.
- the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP).
- public key methods, including RSA and Elliptic curves, as well as password and key authentication methods such as SRP and PSK protocols.
- all the strong encryption algorithms, including AES and Camellia.
- CPU-assisted cryptography with VIA padlock and AES-NI instruction sets.
- HSMs and cryptographic tokens, via PKCS #11.
This package contains the GNU Guile modules.
Package: guile-gnutls Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.6.13-2ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/lisp Source: gnutls28 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GnuTLS Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 588 Depends: guile-2.2-libs, libc6 (>= 2.14), libgnutls30 (>= 3.6.12), guile-2.2 Filename: pool/universe/g/gnutls28/guile-gnutls_3.6.13-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 82460 MD5sum: b83b15f5ff499f0af9cb1737108f1d87 SHA1: d59857b6337e777c4d5fc7b4c279c0bf4bf8cc30 SHA256: 780842d6e94b090f559a8353f4b13fbf4b7b60f7fa53c1842bf760cd38fb670b Homepage: https://www.gnutls.org/ Description-en: GNU TLS library - GNU Guile bindings GnuTLS is a portable library which implements the Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS 1.0, 1.2) protocols.
GnuTLS features support for:
- certificate path validation, as well as DANE and trust on first use.
- the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP).
- public key methods, including RSA and Elliptic curves, as well as password and key authentication methods such as SRP and PSK protocols.
- all the strong encryption algorithms, including AES and Camellia.
- CPU-assisted cryptography with VIA padlock and AES-NI instruction sets.
- HSMs and cryptographic tokens, via PKCS #11.
This package contains the GNU Guile modules.
There are three methods to install guile-gnutls 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-gnutls 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-gnutls using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install guile-gnutls
Install guile-gnutls Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install guile-gnutls using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install guile-gnutls
Install guile-gnutls 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-gnutls using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install guile-gnutls
How To Uninstall guile-gnutls on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the guile-gnutls package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove guile-gnutls
Uninstall guile-gnutls And Its Dependencies
To uninstall guile-gnutls and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove guile-gnutls
Remove guile-gnutls Configurations and Data
To remove guile-gnutls configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge guile-gnutls
Remove guile-gnutls configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove guile-gnutls configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge guile-gnutls
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install guile-gnutls package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
