How To Install gpgsm on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpgsm
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gpgsm
gpgsm is:
GnuPG is GNU’s tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC4880.
This package contains the gpgsm program. gpgsm is a tool to provide digital encryption and signing services on X.509 certificates and the CMS protocol. gpgsm includes complete certificate management. Task: server, ubuntu-desktop-minimal, samba-server, ubuntu-desktop, cloud-image, mail-server, ubuntu-core, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: gpgsm Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.2.19-3ubuntu2 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: utils Source: gnupg2 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GnuPG Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 568 Depends: gpgconf (= 2.2.19-3ubuntu2), libassuan0 (>= 2.5.0), libc6 (>= 2.25), libgcrypt20 (>= 1.8.0), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.35), libksba8 (>= 1.3.4), libreadline8 (>= 6.0) Recommends: gnupg (= 2.2.19-3ubuntu2) Breaks: gnupg2 (« 2.1.10-2) Replaces: gnupg2 (« 2.1.10-2) Filename: pool/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_2.2.19-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 216812 MD5sum: 1aaee910238836db197dacee74af3e5f SHA1: bfd85b06b3ff879b978ee6843c4f67f4f12d171f SHA256: ed7f2f431aba977e4ac8bbd37d9506b14b6aa6725624ac0b3f44a19de28e493d Homepage: https://www.gnupg.org/ Description-en: GNU privacy guard - S/MIME version GnuPG is GNU’s tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC4880.
This package contains the gpgsm program. gpgsm is a tool to provide digital encryption and signing services on X.509 certificates and the CMS protocol. gpgsm includes complete certificate management. Task: server, ubuntu-desktop-minimal, samba-server, ubuntu-desktop, cloud-image, mail-server, ubuntu-core, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install gpgsm
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 gpgsm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gpgsm
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gpgsm
Install gpgsm Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gpgsm
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gpgsm
Install gpgsm 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 gpgsm
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gpgsm
How To Uninstall gpgsm on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gpgsm
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gpgsm
Uninstall gpgsm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gpgsm
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gpgsm
Remove gpgsm Configurations and Data
To remove gpgsm
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gpgsm
Remove gpgsm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gpgsm
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gpgsm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpgsm
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.