How To Install yubikey-personalization-gui on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install yubikey-personalization-gui on Debian 9. yubikey-personalization-gui is Graphical personalization tool for YubiKey tokens

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yubikey-personalization-gui on Debian 9.

What is yubikey-personalization-gui

yubikey-personalization-gui is:

YubiKeys are USB tokens that act like keyboards and generate one-time passwords, static passwords or work in challenge-response mode.

This is a graphical tool to customize the token with your own cryptographic key and options.

There are three methods to install yubikey-personalization-gui 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 yubikey-personalization-gui Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install yubikey-personalization-gui using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install yubikey-personalization-gui

Install yubikey-personalization-gui Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install yubikey-personalization-gui using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install yubikey-personalization-gui

Install yubikey-personalization-gui 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 yubikey-personalization-gui using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install yubikey-personalization-gui

How To Uninstall yubikey-personalization-gui on Debian 9

To uninstall only the yubikey-personalization-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove yubikey-personalization-gui

Uninstall yubikey-personalization-gui And Its Dependencies

To uninstall yubikey-personalization-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove yubikey-personalization-gui

Remove yubikey-personalization-gui Configurations and Data

To remove yubikey-personalization-gui configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge yubikey-personalization-gui

Remove yubikey-personalization-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove yubikey-personalization-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yubikey-personalization-gui

Dependencies

yubikey-personalization-gui have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install yubikey-personalization-gui package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.