How To Install clevis-luks on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis-luks on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is clevis-luks
clevis-luks is:
This package allows you to bind a LUKSv1 volume to a clevis unlocking policy. For automated unlocking, an unlocker will also be required. See, for example, clevis-dracut and clevis-udisks2.
Package: clevis-luks Architecture: all Version: 12-1ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Source: clevis Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Christoph Biedl [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 34 Depends: clevis, cryptsetup-bin, luksmeta Filename: pool/universe/c/clevis/clevis-luks_12-1ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 9464 MD5sum: aa7ecfe8c5c6197982f959752150528f SHA1: 825fe046e71c46b7fb85518742a60851694856ab SHA256: ad37283da4637fccd59004dc91023326f22ab61aec7d4786295b31a3189012cc Homepage: https://github.com/latchset/clevis Description-en: LUKSv1 integration for clevis This package allows you to bind a LUKSv1 volume to a clevis unlocking policy. For automated unlocking, an unlocker will also be required. See, for example, clevis-dracut and clevis-udisks2.
There are three methods to install clevis-luks 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 clevis-luks Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install clevis-luks using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clevis-luks
Install clevis-luks Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install clevis-luks using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clevis-luks
Install clevis-luks 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 clevis-luks using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clevis-luks
How To Uninstall clevis-luks on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the clevis-luks package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clevis-luks
Uninstall clevis-luks And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clevis-luks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clevis-luks
Remove clevis-luks Configurations and Data
To remove clevis-luks configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clevis-luks
Remove clevis-luks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clevis-luks configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clevis-luks
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis-luks package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
