How To Install libsodium23 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsodium23 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libsodium23
libsodium23 is:
NaCl (pronounced “salt”) is a new easy-to-use high-speed software library for network communication, encryption, decryption, signatures, etc.
NaCl’s goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build higher-level cryptographic tools.
Sodium is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable fork of NaCl, with a compatible API.
There are three methods to install libsodium23 on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libsodium23 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libsodium23 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsodium23
Install libsodium23 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libsodium23 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsodium23
Install libsodium23 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 libsodium23 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsodium23
How To Uninstall libsodium23 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libsodium23 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsodium23
Uninstall libsodium23 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsodium23 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsodium23
Remove libsodium23 Configurations and Data
To remove libsodium23 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsodium23
Remove libsodium23 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsodium23 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsodium23
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsodium23 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
