How To Install keyringer on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install keyringer on Debian 11. keyringer is Distributed secret management using GnuPG and Git

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install keyringer on Debian 11.

What is keyringer

keyringer is:

Keyringer lets you manage and share secrets using GnuPG and Git in a distributed fashion. It has custom commands to encrypt, decrypt and recrypt secrets as well as create key pairs and supports encryption to multiple recipients and groups of different recipients to ensure the same repository can be shared with a workgroup but allowing to keep some secrets available just to subsets of that group.

OpenSSL is needed to generate X.509 certificates and keys and xdg-utils are needed to open and edit encrypted secrets according to their file types.

There are three methods to install keyringer 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 keyringer Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install keyringer

Install keyringer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install keyringer using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install keyringer

Install keyringer 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 keyringer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install keyringer

How To Uninstall keyringer on Debian 11

To uninstall only the keyringer package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove keyringer

Uninstall keyringer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall keyringer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove keyringer

Remove keyringer Configurations and Data

To remove keyringer configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge keyringer

Remove keyringer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove keyringer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge keyringer

Dependencies

keyringer have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install keyringer package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.