How To Install nasty on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nasty on Debian 9.
What is nasty
nasty is:
Nasty is a program that helps you to recover the passphrase of your PGP or GPG-key in case you forget or lost it. The following features will make things easier:
- set minimum/maximum length of the passphrase
- incremental mode, random mode or reads a file for guessing
- charset filter
This package is useful in forensics investigations.
There are three methods to install nasty 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 nasty Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nasty using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nasty
Install nasty Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nasty using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nasty
Install nasty 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 nasty using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nasty
How To Uninstall nasty on Debian 9
To uninstall only the nasty package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nasty
Uninstall nasty And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nasty and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nasty
Remove nasty Configurations and Data
To remove nasty configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nasty
Remove nasty configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nasty configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nasty
Dependencies
nasty have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nasty package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.