How To Install gssproxy on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gssproxy
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gssproxy
gssproxy is:
Applications can choose to use GSS-Proxy for GSSAPI credential management, which means that they will not have direct access to the credentials themselves. GSSAPI operations are also offloaded to the gssproxy daemon, making it suitable for upcalls from the Kernel as well.
This package includes both the gssproxy daemon itself and the GSSAPI interposer layer for existing applications.
There are three methods to install gssproxy
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 gssproxy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gssproxy
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gssproxy
Install gssproxy Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gssproxy
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gssproxy
Install gssproxy 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 gssproxy
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gssproxy
How To Uninstall gssproxy on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gssproxy
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gssproxy
Uninstall gssproxy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gssproxy
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gssproxy
Remove gssproxy Configurations and Data
To remove gssproxy
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gssproxy
Remove gssproxy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gssproxy
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gssproxy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gssproxy
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.