How To Install seahorse-sharing on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install seahorse-sharing on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is seahorse-sharing
seahorse-sharing is:
A daemon for sharing your GnuPG keys using HKP key sharing discovered with DNS-SD.
There are three methods to install seahorse-sharing on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-sharing 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-sharing using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install seahorse-sharing
Install seahorse-sharing Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install seahorse-sharing using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install seahorse-sharing
Install seahorse-sharing 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-sharing using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install seahorse-sharing
How To Uninstall seahorse-sharing on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the seahorse-sharing package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove seahorse-sharing
Uninstall seahorse-sharing And Its Dependencies
To uninstall seahorse-sharing and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove seahorse-sharing
Remove seahorse-sharing Configurations and Data
To remove seahorse-sharing configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge seahorse-sharing
Remove seahorse-sharing configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove seahorse-sharing configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge seahorse-sharing
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install seahorse-sharing package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.