How To Install gopass on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gopass on Kali Linux.

What is gopass

gopass is:

gopass is a Pass (http://www.passwordstore.org/) implementation in Go.

Password management should be simple and follow Unix philosophy. With gopass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password. These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder hierarchies, copied from computer to computer, and, in general, manipulated using standard command line file management utilities.

This package is not gopass.pw (similar project with the same name).

This package contains the gopass executable.

There are three methods to install gopass on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gopass Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gopass

Install gopass Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gopass

Install gopass Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install gopass

How To Uninstall gopass on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove gopass

Uninstall gopass And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gopass and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gopass

Remove gopass Configurations and Data

To remove gopass configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gopass

Remove gopass configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gopass

Dependencies

gopass have the following dependencies:

• gnupg2
• tree

References

• gopass website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gopass package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.