How To Install parcimonie on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install parcimonie on Debian 9.
What is parcimonie
parcimonie is:
parcimonie is a daemon that slowly refreshes a gpg public keyring from a keyserver.
Its refreshes one OpenPGP key at a time; between every key update, parcimonie sleeps a random amount of time, long enough for the previously used Tor circuit to expire.
This process is meant to make it hard for an attacker to correlate the multiple performed key update operations.
See the included design document to learn more about the threat and risk models parcimonie attempts to help coping with.
parcimonie also ships a desktop applet that allows one to monitor the background daemon’s activities with a graphical user interface.
There are three methods to install parcimonie 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 parcimonie Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install parcimonie using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install parcimonie
Install parcimonie Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install parcimonie using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install parcimonie
Install parcimonie 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 parcimonie using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install parcimonie
How To Uninstall parcimonie on Debian 9
To uninstall only the parcimonie package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove parcimonie
Uninstall parcimonie And Its Dependencies
To uninstall parcimonie and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove parcimonie
Remove parcimonie Configurations and Data
To remove parcimonie configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge parcimonie
Remove parcimonie configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove parcimonie configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge parcimonie
Dependencies
parcimonie have the following dependencies:
- perl
- dirmngr
- gnupg
- gnupg2
- libclone-perl
- libconfig-general-perl
- libfile-homedir-perl
- libfile-which-perl
- libgnupg-interface-perl
- libipc-system-simple-perl
- liblist-moreutils-perl
- libmoo-perl
- libmoox-late-perl
- libmoox-options-perl
- libnamespace-clean-perl
- libpath-tiny-perl
- libtime-duration-parse-perl
- libtry-tiny-perl
- libtypes-path-tiny-perl
- libtype-tiny-perl
- torsocks
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install parcimonie package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.