How To Install pollinate on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pollinate on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is pollinate
pollinate is:
This client will connect to one or more Pollen (entropy-as-a-service) servers over an (optionally) encrypted connection and retrieve a random seed over HTTP or HTTPS. This is particularly useful at the first boot of cloud images and in virtual machines, to seed a system’s random number generator at genesis, and is intended to supplement the /etc/init.d/urandom init script. It can be used on physical machines, as well, to supplement the seeding of the pseudo random number generator. Task: server, cloud-image
Package: pollinate Architecture: all Version: 4.33-3ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Thorsten Alteholz [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 92 Depends: curl, adduser, xxd | vim-common Breaks: pollen (« 4.21-1) Replaces: pollen (« 4.21-1) Filename: pool/main/p/pollinate/pollinate_4.33-3ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 22536 MD5sum: 87cd7be064ef839eb4463db407235e1d SHA1: b7d85c2282d905b9b3f0429cb6011be38a303703 SHA256: 66d5aa6f983365be439a3472b3438a805f2c065258e5b351986757f740150b46 Homepage: http://launchpad.net/pollinate Description-en: seed the pseudo random number generator This client will connect to one or more Pollen (entropy-as-a-service) servers over an (optionally) encrypted connection and retrieve a random seed over HTTP or HTTPS. This is particularly useful at the first boot of cloud images and in virtual machines, to seed a system’s random number generator at genesis, and is intended to supplement the /etc/init.d/urandom init script. It can be used on physical machines, as well, to supplement the seeding of the pseudo random number generator. Task: server, cloud-image
There are three methods to install pollinate 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 pollinate Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pollinate using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pollinate
Install pollinate Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pollinate using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pollinate
Install pollinate 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 pollinate using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pollinate
How To Uninstall pollinate on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the pollinate package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pollinate
Uninstall pollinate And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pollinate and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pollinate
Remove pollinate Configurations and Data
To remove pollinate configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pollinate
Remove pollinate configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pollinate configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pollinate
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pollinate package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
