How To Install keysync on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install keysync on Debian 10.
What is keysync
keysync is:
There are many chat apps that support OTR encryption for verifying messages. Many use multiple chat apps, including one for desktop and another for mobile, or one for Mac OS X and another for GNU/Linux or Windows. The trust relationships are only stored locally in the app in a format that is specific to that app. Switching between all of them means that you have to manage your trust relationships for each app that you use.
KeySync addresses this problem by allowing you to sync your OTR identity and trust relationships between multiple apps. It currently works with ChatSecure on Android, and Pidgin, Adium, and Jitsi on desktop. This project is for converting the various OTR file formats between each other. Currently, KeySync is focused on the two major OTR implementations: libotr and otr4j, but it is modular enough to allow adding support for any OTR implementation.
There are three methods to install keysync 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 keysync Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install keysync using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install keysync
Install keysync Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install keysync using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install keysync
Install keysync 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 keysync using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install keysync
How To Uninstall keysync on Debian 10
To uninstall only the keysync package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove keysync
Uninstall keysync And Its Dependencies
To uninstall keysync and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove keysync
Remove keysync Configurations and Data
To remove keysync configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge keysync
Remove keysync configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove keysync configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge keysync
Dependencies
keysync have the following dependencies:
- python-bs4
- python-crypto
- python-pgpdump
- python-pil
- python-potr
- python-psutil
- python-pyasn1
- python-pyjavaproperties
- python-pymtp
- python-pyparsing
- python-qrcode
- python-six
- python
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install keysync package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.