How To Install mercurial-keyring on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-keyring on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mercurial-keyring
mercurial-keyring is:
mercurial_keyring is a Mercurial extension used to securely save HTTP and SMTP authentication passwords in password databases (GNOME Keyring, KDE KWallet, OSXKeyChain, specific solutions for Win32 and command line). This extension uses and wraps services of the keyring library.
There are three methods to install mercurial-keyring 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 mercurial-keyring Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mercurial-keyring using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mercurial-keyring
Install mercurial-keyring Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mercurial-keyring using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mercurial-keyring
Install mercurial-keyring 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 mercurial-keyring using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mercurial-keyring
How To Uninstall mercurial-keyring on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mercurial-keyring package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mercurial-keyring
Uninstall mercurial-keyring And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mercurial-keyring and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mercurial-keyring
Remove mercurial-keyring Configurations and Data
To remove mercurial-keyring configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mercurial-keyring
Remove mercurial-keyring configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mercurial-keyring configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mercurial-keyring
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-keyring package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
