How To Install gpgv2 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpgv2
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gpgv2
gpgv2 is:
GnuPG is GNU’s tool for secure communication and data storage. gpgv is a stripped-down version of gpg which is only able to check signatures.
This is a dummy transitional package that provides symlinks from gpgv2 to gpgv.
Package: gpgv2 Architecture: all Version: 2.2.19-3ubuntu2 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/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: 50 Depends: gpgv (>= 2.2.19-3ubuntu2) Filename: pool/universe/g/gnupg2/gpgv2_2.2.19-3ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 4508 MD5sum: daab8800b3a4cfd50bec8ac5eb4e29be SHA1: 169ea4604356a7d0dec50d5b8e81346651e4ccd3 SHA256: 24e1104dac1a6233527077488a16175fb02c0d4428978af6f3537f155d4ecb9e Homepage: https://www.gnupg.org/ Description-en: GNU privacy guard - signature verification tool (dummy transitional package) GnuPG is GNU’s tool for secure communication and data storage. gpgv is a stripped-down version of gpg which is only able to check signatures.
This is a dummy transitional package that provides symlinks from gpgv2 to gpgv.
There are three methods to install gpgv2
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 gpgv2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gpgv2
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gpgv2
Install gpgv2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gpgv2
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gpgv2
Install gpgv2 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 gpgv2
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gpgv2
How To Uninstall gpgv2 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gpgv2
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gpgv2
Uninstall gpgv2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gpgv2
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gpgv2
Remove gpgv2 Configurations and Data
To remove gpgv2
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gpgv2
Remove gpgv2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gpgv2
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gpgv2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpgv2
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.