How To Install python-scrypt on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-scrypt on Debian 9.
What is python-scrypt
python-scrypt is:
This is a set of Python bindings for the scrypt key derivation function.
Scrypt is useful when encrypting password as it is possible to specify a minimum amount of time to use when encrypting and decrypting. If, for example, a password takes 0.05 seconds to verify, a user won’t notice the slight delay when signing in, but doing a brute force search of several billion passwords will take a considerable amount of time. This is in contrast to more traditional hash functions such as MD5 or the SHA family which can be implemented extremely fast on cheap hardware.
There are three methods to install python-scrypt 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 python-scrypt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-scrypt using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-scrypt
Install python-scrypt Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-scrypt using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-scrypt
Install python-scrypt 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 python-scrypt using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-scrypt
How To Uninstall python-scrypt on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-scrypt package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-scrypt
Uninstall python-scrypt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-scrypt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-scrypt
Remove python-scrypt Configurations and Data
To remove python-scrypt configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-scrypt
Remove python-scrypt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-scrypt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-scrypt
Dependencies
python-scrypt have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-scrypt package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.