How To Install seahorse-daemon on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install seahorse-daemon on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is seahorse-daemon
seahorse-daemon is:
This is the agent program for seahorse which keeps a temporary secure storage of your pass phrases.
Seahorse is a front end for GnuPG - the GNU Privacy Guard program - that integrates to the GNOME desktop. It is a tool for secure communications and data storage. Data encryption and digital signature creation can easily be performed through a GUI and Key Management operations can easily be carried out through an intuitive interface.
There are three methods to install seahorse-daemon on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install seahorse-daemon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install seahorse-daemon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install seahorse-daemon
Install seahorse-daemon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install seahorse-daemon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install seahorse-daemon
Install seahorse-daemon 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 seahorse-daemon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install seahorse-daemon
How To Uninstall seahorse-daemon on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the seahorse-daemon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove seahorse-daemon
Uninstall seahorse-daemon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall seahorse-daemon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove seahorse-daemon
Remove seahorse-daemon Configurations and Data
To remove seahorse-daemon configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge seahorse-daemon
Remove seahorse-daemon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove seahorse-daemon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge seahorse-daemon
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install seahorse-daemon package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
