How To Install opencryptoki on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install opencryptoki
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is opencryptoki
opencryptoki is:
openCryptoki is a PKCS#11 Cryptographic Token Interface Standard implementation. It includes drivers and libraries to enable IBM cryptographic hardware such as Trusted Computing Platform (TPM) cryptographic devices as well as a software token for testing.
This package contains the daemon.
Package: opencryptoki Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.13.0+dfsg-0ubuntu5 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/utils Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Paulo Vital [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 385 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libopencryptoki0 (= 3.13.0+dfsg-0ubuntu5), adduser, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) Filename: pool/universe/o/opencryptoki/opencryptoki_3.13.0+dfsg-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb Size: 92600 MD5sum: 3fb8cfce6b0340bdd68a8dd22dd58103 SHA1: 09d82abcb4a9471e63da81d130149d2b54af5faf SHA256: 2e4c9b1006dc010c5de46743d2a51c6e0608cd3dd981169877653c39c17dc139 Homepage: https://github.com/opencryptoki/opencryptoki Description-en: PKCS#11 implementation (daemon) openCryptoki is a PKCS#11 Cryptographic Token Interface Standard implementation. It includes drivers and libraries to enable IBM cryptographic hardware such as Trusted Computing Platform (TPM) cryptographic devices as well as a software token for testing.
This package contains the daemon.
There are three methods to install opencryptoki
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 opencryptoki Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install opencryptoki
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install opencryptoki
Install opencryptoki Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install opencryptoki
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install opencryptoki
Install opencryptoki 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 opencryptoki
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install opencryptoki
How To Uninstall opencryptoki on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the opencryptoki
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove opencryptoki
Uninstall opencryptoki And Its Dependencies
To uninstall opencryptoki
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove opencryptoki
Remove opencryptoki Configurations and Data
To remove opencryptoki
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge opencryptoki
Remove opencryptoki configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove opencryptoki
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge opencryptoki
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install opencryptoki
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.