How To Install python3-scrypt on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-scrypt on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-scrypt is bindings for the scrypt key derivation function library - Python 3.x

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-scrypt on Debian 12.

What is python3-scrypt

python3-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.

This package provides the Python 3.x module.

There are three methods to install python3-scrypt on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python3-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 python3-scrypt using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-scrypt

Install python3-scrypt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-scrypt using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-scrypt

Install python3-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 python3-scrypt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-scrypt

How To Uninstall python3-scrypt on Debian 12

To uninstall only the python3-scrypt package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-scrypt

Uninstall python3-scrypt And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-scrypt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-scrypt

Remove python3-scrypt Configurations and Data

To remove python3-scrypt configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-scrypt

Remove python3-scrypt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-scrypt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-scrypt

Dependencies

python3-scrypt have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-scrypt package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.