How To Install otpclient on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install otpclient
on Debian 11.
What is otpclient
otpclient is:
OTPClient is GTK+ software for two-factor authentication that supports both Time-based One-time Passwords (TOTP) and HMAC-Based One-Time Passwords (HOTP).
Features:
- Support both TOTP and HOTP.
- Support setting custom digits (between 4 and 10 inclusive).
- Support setting a custom period (between 10 and 120 seconds inclusive).
- Support SHA1, SHA256 and SHA512 algorithms.
- Support for Steam codes.
- Import encrypted Authenticator Plus backup.
- Import and export encrypted and/or plain andOTP backup.
- Import and export plain FreeOTPPlus backup (key URI format only).
- Import and export plain Aegis backup (plain json only).
- Local database is encrypted using AES256-GCM.
- Key is derived using PBKDF2 with SHA512 and 100k iterations.
- Decrypted file is never saved (and hopefully never swapped) to disk. While the app is running, the decrypted content resides in a “secure memory” buffer allocated by Gcrypt.
There are three methods to install otpclient
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install otpclient Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install otpclient
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install otpclient
Install otpclient Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install otpclient
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install otpclient
Install otpclient 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 otpclient
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install otpclient
How To Uninstall otpclient on Debian 11
To uninstall only the otpclient
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove otpclient
Uninstall otpclient And Its Dependencies
To uninstall otpclient
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove otpclient
Remove otpclient Configurations and Data
To remove otpclient
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge otpclient
Remove otpclient configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove otpclient
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge otpclient
Dependencies
otpclient have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcotp12
- libgcrypt20
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libjansson4
- libpng16-16
- libzbar0
- libzip4
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install otpclient
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.