How To Install seahorse on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install seahorse
on Kali Linux.
What is seahorse
seahorse is:
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
on Kali Linux. 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 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install seahorse
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install seahorse Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install seahorse
using apt
by running the following command:
Install seahorse Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install seahorse
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall seahorse on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the seahorse
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall seahorse And Its Dependencies
To uninstall seahorse
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove seahorse Configurations and Data
To remove seahorse
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove seahorse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove seahorse
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
seahorse have the following dependencies:
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libatk1.0-0
- libavahi-client3
- libavahi-common3
- libavahi-glib1
- libc6
- libgck-1-0
- libgcr-base-3-1
- libgcr-ui-3-1
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgpgme11
- libgtk-3-0
- libhandy-1-0
- libldap-2.4-2
- libpwquality1
- libsecret-1-0
- libsoup2.4-1
- gcr
- gnome-keyring
- gnupg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install seahorse
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.