How To Install libhogweed4 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhogweed4 on Debian 10.
What is libhogweed4
libhogweed4 is:
Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or less any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages (C++, Python, Pike, …), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space.
It tries to solve a problem of providing a common set of cryptographic algorithms for higher-level applications by implementing a context-independent set of cryptographic algorithms. In that light, Nettle doesn’t do any memory allocation or I/O, it simply provides the cryptographic algorithms for the application to use in any environment and in any way it needs.
This package contains the asymmetric cryptographic algorithms, which, require the GNU multiple precision arithmetic library (libgmp) for their large integer computations.
There are three methods to install libhogweed4 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 libhogweed4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libhogweed4 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libhogweed4
Install libhogweed4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libhogweed4 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libhogweed4
Install libhogweed4 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 libhogweed4 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libhogweed4
How To Uninstall libhogweed4 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libhogweed4 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libhogweed4
Uninstall libhogweed4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libhogweed4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhogweed4
Remove libhogweed4 Configurations and Data
To remove libhogweed4 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libhogweed4
Remove libhogweed4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libhogweed4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhogweed4
Dependencies
libhogweed4 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhogweed4 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.