How To Install mandos on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mandos
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mandos
mandos is:
This is the server part of the Mandos system, which allows computers to have encrypted root file systems and at the same time be capable of remote and/or unattended reboots.
The computers run a small client program in the initial RAM disk environment which will communicate with a server over a network. All network communication is encrypted using TLS. The clients are identified by the server using a TLS public key; each client has one unique to it. The server sends the clients an encrypted password. The encrypted password is decrypted by the clients using an OpenPGP key, and the password is then used to unlock the root file system, whereupon the computers can continue booting normally.
There are three methods to install mandos
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mandos Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mandos
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mandos
Install mandos Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mandos
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mandos
Install mandos 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 mandos
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mandos
How To Uninstall mandos on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mandos
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mandos
Uninstall mandos And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mandos
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mandos
Remove mandos Configurations and Data
To remove mandos
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mandos
Remove mandos configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mandos
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mandos
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mandos
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.