How To Install gpw on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpw on Debian 10.
What is gpw
gpw is:
This package generates pronounceable passwords. It uses the statistics of three-letter combinations (trigraphs) taken from whatever dictionaries you feed it.
Thus pronounceability may differ from language to language. Based on the ideas in Morrie Gasser’s password generator for Multics, and Dan Edwards’s generator for CTSS. FIPS Standard 181 describes a similar digraph-based generator, derived from Gasser’s.
There are three methods to install gpw 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 gpw Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gpw using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gpw
Install gpw Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gpw using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gpw
Install gpw 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 gpw using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gpw
How To Uninstall gpw on Debian 10
To uninstall only the gpw package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gpw
Uninstall gpw And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gpw and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gpw
Remove gpw Configurations and Data
To remove gpw configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gpw
Remove gpw configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gpw configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gpw
Dependencies
gpw have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpw package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.