How To Install liboath0 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboath0 on Debian 9.
What is liboath0
liboath0 is:
The OATH Toolkit makes it easy to build one-time password authentication systems. It contains shared libraries, command line tools and a PAM module. Supported technologies include the event-based HOTP algorithm (RFC4226) and the time-based TOTP algorithm (RFC6238). OATH stands for Open AuTHentication, which is the organization that specify the algorithms. For managing secret key files, the Portable Symmetric Key Container (PSKC) format described in RFC6030 is supported.
This package includes the Liboath shared library that is used by applications. You normally don’t need to install it manually.
There are three methods to install liboath0 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 liboath0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liboath0 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liboath0
Install liboath0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liboath0 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liboath0
Install liboath0 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 liboath0 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liboath0
How To Uninstall liboath0 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the liboath0 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liboath0
Uninstall liboath0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liboath0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboath0
Remove liboath0 Configurations and Data
To remove liboath0 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liboath0
Remove liboath0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liboath0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboath0
Dependencies
liboath0 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboath0 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.