How To Install libsecret-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsecret-tools on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libsecret-tools
libsecret-tools is:
This package provides a command line tool using libsecret to access the freedesktop.org Secret Service API. This can be used to store and retrieve passwords for desktop applications.
Package: libsecret-tools Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.20.2-1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Source: libsecret Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 43 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.44.0), libsecret-1-0 (>= 0.19.1) Filename: pool/universe/libs/libsecret/libsecret-tools_0.20.2-1_amd64.deb Size: 10316 MD5sum: f4759af20c183078f6c70693c12a792f SHA1: fca444b1cf285ac0ba14594bc0c8c5ec607d0fad SHA256: 9449a9e9e8d9dfd9c89d5586af8486f3b5a02d628ec7916ca523b0295d9c4a21 Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Libsecret Description-en: tool for storing and retrieving GObject passwords This package provides a command line tool using libsecret to access the freedesktop.org Secret Service API. This can be used to store and retrieve passwords for desktop applications.
There are three methods to install libsecret-tools 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 libsecret-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libsecret-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsecret-tools
Install libsecret-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libsecret-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsecret-tools
Install libsecret-tools 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 libsecret-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsecret-tools
How To Uninstall libsecret-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libsecret-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsecret-tools
Uninstall libsecret-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsecret-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsecret-tools
Remove libsecret-tools Configurations and Data
To remove libsecret-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsecret-tools
Remove libsecret-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsecret-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsecret-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsecret-tools package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
