How To Install gosop on Debian 12

Learn how to install gosop on Debian 12 with this tutorial. gosop is Stateless CLI for GopenPGP (program)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gosop on Debian 12.

What is gosop

gosop is:

The Stateless OpenPGP CLIknown as SOP, is an RFC specification that aims to provide a minimal API for any implementation of the OpenPGP protocol, in the form of a command-line Interface. SOP can be used to test interoperability between different implementations of OpenPGP; the OpenPGP interoperability Test Suite (https://tests.sequoia-pgp.org/) reports results using several SOP implementations. For more information, please refer to the specification (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dkg- openpgp-stateless-cli-01).

There are three methods to install gosop on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gosop Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gosop

Install gosop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gosop

Install gosop 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 gosop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gosop

How To Uninstall gosop on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove gosop

Uninstall gosop And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gosop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gosop

Remove gosop Configurations and Data

To remove gosop configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gosop

Remove gosop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gosop

Dependencies

gosop have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gosop package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.