How To Install r-cran-sodium on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-sodium on Debian 12.
What is r-cran-sodium
r-cran-sodium is:
Bindings to ’libsodium’: a modern, easy-to-use software library for encryption, decryption, signatures, password hashing and more. Sodium uses curve25519, a state-of-the-art Diffie-Hellman function by Daniel Bernstein, which has become very popular after it was discovered that the NSA had backdoored Dual EC DRBG.
There are three methods to install r-cran-sodium 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 r-cran-sodium Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-sodium using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-sodium
Install r-cran-sodium Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-sodium using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-sodium
Install r-cran-sodium 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 r-cran-sodium using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-sodium
How To Uninstall r-cran-sodium on Debian 12
To uninstall only the r-cran-sodium package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-sodium
Uninstall r-cran-sodium And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-sodium and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-cran-sodium
Remove r-cran-sodium Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-sodium configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-sodium
Remove r-cran-sodium configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-sodium configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-sodium
Dependencies
r-cran-sodium have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-sodium package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
