How To Install gnome-keyring on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-keyring
on Debian 10.
What is gnome-keyring
gnome-keyring is:
gnome-keyring is a daemon in the session, similar to ssh-agent, and other applications can use it to store passwords and other sensitive information.
The program can manage several keyrings, each with its own master password, and there is also a session keyring which is never stored to disk, but forgotten when the session ends.
There are three methods to install gnome-keyring
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gnome-keyring Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-keyring
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-keyring
Install gnome-keyring Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-keyring
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-keyring
Install gnome-keyring 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 gnome-keyring
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-keyring
How To Uninstall gnome-keyring on Debian 10
To uninstall only the gnome-keyring
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-keyring
Uninstall gnome-keyring And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-keyring
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-keyring
Remove gnome-keyring Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-keyring
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-keyring
Remove gnome-keyring configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-keyring
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-keyring
Dependencies
gnome-keyring have the following dependencies:
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libc6
- libcap-ng0
- libgck-1-0
- libgcr-base-3-1
- libgcrypt20
- libglib2.0-0
- gcr
- default-dbus-session-bus
- p11-kit
- libcap2-bin
- pinentry-gnome3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-keyring
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.