How To Install plasma-pass on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-pass on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is plasma-pass
plasma-pass is:
Plasma Pass is a Plasma applet to access password from pass, the standard UNIX password manager: https://www.passwordstore.org.
The “pass” utility is not required by Plasma Pass.
There are three methods to install plasma-pass on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install plasma-pass Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-pass using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-pass
Install plasma-pass Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-pass using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plasma-pass
Install plasma-pass 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 plasma-pass using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plasma-pass
How To Uninstall plasma-pass on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the plasma-pass package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plasma-pass
Uninstall plasma-pass And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-pass and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-pass
Remove plasma-pass Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-pass configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-pass
Remove plasma-pass configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-pass configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-pass
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-pass package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.