How To Install idecrypt on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install idecrypt
on Debian 9.
What is idecrypt
idecrypt is:
This package contains the idecrypt(8) utility which is used to decrypt encrypted responses from a pidentd server with DES encryption turned on.
There are three methods to install idecrypt
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install idecrypt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install idecrypt
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install idecrypt
Install idecrypt Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install idecrypt
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install idecrypt
Install idecrypt 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 idecrypt
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install idecrypt
How To Uninstall idecrypt on Debian 9
To uninstall only the idecrypt
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove idecrypt
Uninstall idecrypt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall idecrypt
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove idecrypt
Remove idecrypt Configurations and Data
To remove idecrypt
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge idecrypt
Remove idecrypt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove idecrypt
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge idecrypt
Dependencies
idecrypt have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install idecrypt
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.