How To Install credential-sheets on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install credential-sheets on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is credential-sheets
credential-sheets is:
After mass import of user accounts (e.g. into LDAP) most site administrators have to create information sheets (or snippets) containing those new credentials (like username, password, policy of usage, etc.).
With this tiny tool, providing these pieces of information to multiple users, becomes really simple. Account data is taken from a CSV file and the sheets are output as PDF using easily configurable LaTeX template files.
There are three methods to install credential-sheets on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install credential-sheets Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install credential-sheets using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install credential-sheets
Install credential-sheets Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install credential-sheets using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install credential-sheets
Install credential-sheets 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 credential-sheets using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install credential-sheets
How To Uninstall credential-sheets on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the credential-sheets package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove credential-sheets
Uninstall credential-sheets And Its Dependencies
To uninstall credential-sheets and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove credential-sheets
Remove credential-sheets Configurations and Data
To remove credential-sheets configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge credential-sheets
Remove credential-sheets configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove credential-sheets configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge credential-sheets
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install credential-sheets package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
