How To Install libsodium18 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsodium18 on Debian 9.
What is libsodium18
libsodium18 is:
NaCl (pronounced “salt”) is a new easy-to-use high-speed software library for network communication, encryption, decryption, signatures, etc.
NaCl’s goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build higher-level cryptographic tools.
Sodium is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable fork of NaCl, with a compatible API.
There are three methods to install libsodium18 on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libsodium18 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libsodium18 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsodium18
Install libsodium18 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libsodium18 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsodium18
Install libsodium18 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libsodium18 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsodium18
How To Uninstall libsodium18 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libsodium18 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsodium18
Uninstall libsodium18 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsodium18 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsodium18
Remove libsodium18 Configurations and Data
To remove libsodium18 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsodium18
Remove libsodium18 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsodium18 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsodium18
Dependencies
libsodium18 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsodium18 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
